WRITER

Joseph Conrad

1857 - 1924

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Joseph Conrad (born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, Polish: [ˈjuzɛf tɛˈɔdɔr ˈkɔnrat kɔʐɛˈɲɔfskʲi] ; 3 December 1857 – 3 August 1924) was a Polish-British novelist and story writer. He is regarded as one of the greatest writers in the English language; though he did not speak English fluently until his twenties, he came to be regarded a master prose stylist who brought a non-English sensibility into English literature. He wrote novels and stories, many in nautical settings, that depict crises of human individuality in the midst of what he saw as an indifferent, inscrutable and amoral world.Conrad is considered a literary impressionist by some and an early modernist by others, though his works also contain elements of 19th-century realism. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joseph Conrad has received more than 5,399,093 page views. His biography is available in 88 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 85 in 2019). Joseph Conrad is the 153rd most popular writer (down from 152nd in 2019), the 11th most popular biography from Ukraine (up from 14th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Ukrainian Writer.

Joseph Conrad is most famous for his novel, Heart of Darkness.

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  • 5.4M

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  • 74.32

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 88

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.23

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.64

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Lord Jim
1900
Nostromo
1900
Almayer's folly
The Medallion edition of "The Works of Joseph Conrad" brings together all Conrad's novels and stories, with author prefaces and textual revisions. Detailed contents available on request.
1890
Heart of Darkness
Fiction
Heart of Darkness is a short and vividly brutal account of colonial enterprise that has as much in common with the jaded Evelyn Waugh of Black Mischief as it does with any of Conrad's direct contemporaries in the late nineteenth century. It is accompanied in this volume by the tales with which it has been published since 1902, the autobiographical short story "Youth," and the less personal but more substantial tale of an old man's fall from fortune, "The End of the Tether." Though these stories differ considerably in style and content from his later novels, much of his reputation rests upon the words contained in this volume.
1899
The Secret Agent
Fiction
Penguin inaugurates a series of revised editions of Conrad's finest works, with new introductions In a corrupt London underworld of criminals, terrorists, and fanatics, Mr. Verloc is assigned to plant a bomb. The tragic repercussions for his family show how Conrad's ironic voice is concerned not with politics but with the terrible fates of ordinary people.
1907
Victory
1915

Page views of Joseph Conrads by language

Over the past year Joseph Conrad has had the most page views in the with 743,009 views, followed by Spanish (250,785), and Polish (123,660). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Azerbaijani (343.59%), Cornish (170.46%), and Scottish Gaelic (127.44%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Joseph Conrad ranks 153 out of 7,302. Before him are Joan Fuster, Elias Canetti, William Faulkner, Jean Racine, Naguib Mahfouz, and Annie Ernaux. After him are Catullus, Novalis, Fernando Pessoa, Karen Blixen, John the Evangelist, and Terry Pratchett.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1857, Joseph Conrad ranks 7. Before him are Ferdinand de Saussure, Pope Pius XI, Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, Heinrich Hertz, Edward Elgar, and Clara Zetkin. After him are Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom, Karl Adolph Gjellerup, Alfonso XII of Spain, Henrik Pontoppidan, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, and William Howard Taft. Among people deceased in 1924, Joseph Conrad ranks 6. Before him are Vladimir Lenin, Franz Kafka, Giacomo Puccini, Anatole France, and Woodrow Wilson. After him are Louis Sullivan, Alfred Marshall, Gabriel Fauré, Archduchess Marie Valerie of Austria, Carl Spitteler, and Frances Hodgson Burnett.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Joseph Conrad ranks 11 out of 1,365. Before him are Nikolai Gogol (1809), Sergei Prokofiev (1891), Stepan Bandera (1909), John III Sobieski (1629), Kazimir Malevich (1879), and Bohdan Khmelnytsky (1595). After him are Hafsa Sultan (1479), Viktor Yanukovych (1950), Ilya Repin (1844), Taras Shevchenko (1814), Helena Blavatsky (1831), and Svetlana Alexievich (1948).

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Among WRITERS In Ukraine

Among writers born in Ukraine, Joseph Conrad ranks 2. Before him are Nikolai Gogol (1809). After him are Taras Shevchenko (1814), Svetlana Alexievich (1948), Stanisław Lem (1921), Mikhail Bulgakov (1891), Anna Akhmatova (1889), Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (1836), Joseph Roth (1894), Sholem Aleichem (1859), Vasily Grossman (1905), and Lesya Ukrainka (1871).

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