Mr. Conrad has no ideas, but he has a point of view, a “world”; it can hardly be defined, but it pervades his work and is unmistakable. —T. S. Eliot, “Kipling Redivivus” He [James] had a mind so fine ...

An occasional series in which The Post's book critic reconsiders notable and/or neglected books from the past. The extraordinary and uncommonly influential literary career of Joseph Conrad began in ...

Joseph Conrad (1857-1924), the famous Polish-born author of Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim and The Secret Agent, among many other novels and short stories, is not a writer usually associated with ...

Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski (1857-1925), otherwise known as Joseph Conrad, is best known for his short story Heart of Darkness, famously adapted by Francis Ford Coppola in Apocalypse Now. Though ...

The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World. By Maya Jasanoff. Penguin Press; 400 pages; $30. William Collins; £25. JOSEPH CONRAD was a phenomenon. Born to Polish parents in 1857 in a part of the ...

Most people hate “Heart of Darkness” the first time they read it. I certainly did, as a high school senior more than 40 years ago, hated everything from its corkscrew sentences to the way its narrator ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write a weekly profile on the Great Books. Getting into Conrad can be difficult. His subject matter (often foreign), settings ...

A historic London home once occupied by the Polish-British writer Joseph Conrad—whose novella “Heart of Darkness” inspired the 1979 epic film “Apocalypse Now”—is on the market for £1.7 million (US$2.3 ...