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Lush prose and penetrating psychological insight infuse Conrads first novel with the qualities which may have made him one of the most popular & most studied writers in English literature. The novel chronicles the tragic decline of a Dutch merchant isolated in 19th-century Borneo, the machinations of his bitter Malayan wife, and the increased loss of his precious daughter. Conrad establishes the themes of betrayal, isolation, and colonialism that he'd explore throughout the others of his life and work. Joseph Conrad was a Polish-born novelist who spent almost all of his adult life in Britain. He's regarded as one of the biggest English novelists, which is even more notable because he did not figure out how to speak English well until he was in his 20s. Conrad is regarded as a master prose stylist. Some of his works have a strain of romanticism, but more importantly he is named an important forerunner of Modernist literature. Writing during the apogee of the British Empire, Conrad drew upon his experience in the British Merchant Navy. In 1894, at the age of 36, he left the sea to become an English author. His first novel, Almayers Folly, set on the east coast of Borneo and was published in 1895. Conrads narrative style and anti-heroic characters have influenced many writers, including Ernest Hemingway, D.H. Lawrence, Graham Greene, William S. Burroughs, Joseph Heller, John Maxwell Coetzee as well as Jerzy Kosinski and inspired such films as Apocalypse Now (drawn from Heart of Darkness). Joseph Conrad died of a coronary attack, and was interred in Canterbury Cemetery, Canterbury, England.
