Male : Novelist. Parents exiled to France for political reasons. Became a seaman in Marseilles in 1874, and in 1878 joined the British Merchant Navy, becoming a Master Mariner in 1886, the same year he adopted British citizenship. In 1893 he left the Navy and began to write. Married Jessie George in 1896. He died of a heart attack at his home in Kent

Nationality : English Place of Birth : Berdiczew, Podolia, Russian Poland (Ukraine)

Date of Birth : 1857 Date of Death : 1924 Age : 67

Pseudonyms : Konrad Korzeniowski

1895-1900
Almayer's Folly : A Story of an Eastern River (1895 T Fisher Unwin)
Offered in 1999 for £410
(1895 Macmillan NY) - Offered in 1999 for £575
An Outcast of the Islands (1896 T Fisher Unwin) (1896 Appleton, NY)
UK First offered in 1997 for £275
[Filmed in 1951]
The Children of the Sea : A Tale of the Forecastle (1897 Dodd, Mead)
The Nigger of the Narcissus (1897 Heinemann) - same as above title
Tales of Unrest (1898 Scribner) (1898 T Fisher Unwin)
Lord Jim : A Tale (1900 William Blackwood, Edinburgh) (1900 Doubleday & McClure)
[First appeared in "Blackwood's Magazine" Oct 1899 to Nov 1900]
[Filmed in 1964]

1901-1910
The Inheritors : An Extravagant Story (1901 McClure Phillips & Co, NY/1901 Heinemann UK)
- with Ford Madox Hueffer
Youth : A Narrative & Two Other Stories (1902 William Blackwood) (1903 McClure, Phillips NY)
Typhoon & other Stories (1902 G P Putnam, NY - Maurice Griffenhagen ) (1903 Heinemann)
Heart of Darkness (1902)
[First appeared in "Blackwood's Magazine" Feb-April 1899]
Falk; Amy Foster; To-morrow : Three stories (1903 McClure, Phillips, NY)
["Amy Foster" filmed in 1997]
Romance : A Novel (1903 Smith Elder) (1904 McClure, Phillips - Charles R Macauley)
- with Ford Madox Hueffer
Nostromo : A Tale of the Seaboard (1904 Harper, London) (1904 Harper, NY)
The Mirror of the Sea : Memories and Impressions (1906 Methuen) (1906 Harper)
The Secret Agent : A Simple Tale (1907 Methuen) (1907 Harper)
(1921 Canterbury - printed for author)
[Filmed in 1936 as "Sabotage"]
[Filmed in 1996]
The Point of Honour : A Military Tale (1908 McClure) - Dan Sayre Groesbeck
[Filmed in 1977 as "The Duellists"]
A Set of Six (1908 Methuen) - 1500 copies printed (1915 Doubleday Page)

1911-1920
Under Western Eyes (1911 Methuen)
[First printing of 3.000 copies]
(1911 Harper NY)
Twixt Land and Sea : A Smile of Fortune, The Secret Sharer, Freya of the Seven Isles
(1912 Dent) (1912 H & S, George Doran NY)
Some Reminiscences (1912 Eveleigh Nash) - later re-titled "A Personal Record"
A Personal Record (1912 Harper, NY & London)
Chance : A Tale in Two Parts (1913 Methuen) (1914 Doubleday Page)
[This was his first successful book in terms of sales]
Within the Tides : Tales (1915 Dent) - 3500 copies printed
Victory : An Island Tale (1915 Doubleday & Page, NY) (1915 Methuen)
[Filmed in 1940]
One Day More (1917 Celement Shorter) - a Play. 25 copies only
(1919 Beaumont Press) - 250 copies only
The Shadow Line : A Confession (1917 Dent) (1917 Doubleday)
The Arrow of Gold : A Story Between two Notes (1919 Doubleday Page, NY)
(1919 T Fisher Unwin)
The Rescue : A Romance of the Shallows (1920 Doubleday Page, NY) (1920 Dent)
(1923 T Fisher Unwin)
The Idiots (c1920 Harrap)

1921-1923
Notes on Life and Letters (1921 Dent) (1921 Doubleday)
(Intro by Conrad) Landscapes of Corsica & Ireland by A S Kinkead
(1921 Utd Arts Gallery, London)
The Works (1921-7 Heinemann) - 20 vols. 750 signed
Notes on My Books (1921 Doubleday) (1921 Heinemann) - 250 signed
The Dover Patrol : A Tribute (1922 Canterbury for PP circulation) - 75
John Galsworthy : An Appreciation (1922 Canterbury for PP circulation)
The Rover (1923 Doubleday Page, NY) (1923 T Fisher Unwin)
The Secret Agent : A Drama in Three Acts (1923 PP in London) - 1000 signed
The Works : Uniform Edition (1923-8 Dent) - 22 vols
Marcel Proust : An English Tribute (1923 Chatto & Windus) - et al
Laughing Anne : A Play (1923 Bookman Journal - No 4 of the "Vine Books") - 200 signed
(Intro) Thomas Beer : Stephen Crane - A Study in American Letters (1923 US)
(1924 Heinemann)

1924-1925
The Nature of a Crime (1924 Duckworth) (1924 Doubleday Page) - with Ford Madox Hueffer
The Duel (1924 Doubleday NY)
Laughing Anne & One Day More (1924 Castle, London) - Intro John Galsworthy
The Shorter Tales (1924 Doubleday Page)
Suspense : A Napoleonic Novel (1925 Doubleday Page, NY) - 377 numbered (1925 Dent)
[This work was unfinished at his death]
Admiralty Paper (1925 PP in NY for Jerome Kern) - 93
Tales of Hearsay (1925 T Fisher Unwin) (1925 Doubleday Page)
The Works (1925 John Grant, Edinburgh) - 20 vols
The Works : Medallion Edition (1925-8 Gresham Publishing Co, London) - 22 vols
Offered in 2000 for £750

1926-1930
Last Essays (1926 T Fisher Unwin) (1926 Doubleday Page)
The Nature of a Crime : Three Plays (1926 NY) - with Ford
Joseph Conrad's Letters to His Wife (1927 PP in London) - 220 signed by his widow
Letters : 1895 to 1924 (1928 Nonesuch Press) - edited by Edward Garnett. 925
Letters of Joseph Conrad to Richard Curle (1928 Crosby Gaige, NY) - 850 (1928 Sampson Low)
The Sisters (1928 Crosby, Gaige NY) - 926. Intro Ford Madox Ford
Complete Works : Canterbury edition (1928 Doubleday Doran for Wm H Wise, NY) - 26 vols

Since 1931
A Sketch of Joseph Conrad's Life Written by Himself in 1900
(1939 PP for the Friends of Marguerite & Eric) - 75
A Conrad Argosy (1942 Doubleday Doran)
Letters to William Blackwood & David S Meldrum (1958 Duke UP)
Lord Jim (1959 Ltd Eds Club, NY) - 1500 signed by Lynd Ward
Nostromo (1961 Ltd Eds Club, SF) - 1500 signed by Lima de Freitas
The Nigger of the Narcissus (1965 Ltd Eds Club, NY) - 1500 signed by Millard Sheets
Conrad's Manifesto : Preface to a Career (1966 Rosenbach & Bodley Head, Phila)
- 1100 copies
The Heart of Darkness (1969 Ltd Eds Club, BY) - 1500 signed by Robert Shore
Youth, Typhoon, The End of the Tether (1972 Ltd Eds Club, NY)
- 1500 signed by Robert Shore
An Outcast of the Islands (1975 Ltd Eds Club, Avon CT) - 2000 signed by Robert Shore
Congo Diary : Uncollected Pieces (1978 NY)
A Letter to William Nicholson (1985 Eighteen Nineties Society) - 550

READING
1914-1930
Richard Curle : Joseph Conrad - A Study (1914 Doubleday Page)
Hugh Walpole : Joseph Conrad (1916)
T J Wise : A Bibiliography of the Writings of Joseph Conrad (1921 London)
(1964 Dawsons Pall Mall, London)
Capt J G Sutherland : At Sea with Joseph Conrad (1922 Grant Richards) - 1250
Ruth M Stauffer : Joseph Conrad - His Romantic Realism (1922)
Ernst Bendz : Joseph Conrad - An Appreciation (1923 Gumpert, NJ) - 500
Ford Madox Ford : Joseph Conrad - A Personal Remembrance (1924 Duckworth)
Arthur Symons : Notes on Joseph Conrad with some Unpublished Letters (1925 Myers)
E L Adams : Joseph Conrad : The Man .. together with some Bibliographical Notes
(1925 Rudge, NY) - 485
Jessie Conrad : Joseph Conrad as I Knew Him (1926 London)
G Jean-Aubry : Joseph Conrad in the Congo (1926 Bookman's Journal, London) - 470
R L Megroz : A Talk with Joseph Conrad and a Criticism of His Mind and Method
(1926 Elkin Mathews)
G Jean-Aubry : Conrad - Life and Letters (1927 Doubleday Page, NY) (1957) - 2 vols
Richard Curle : The Last Twelve Years of Joseph Conrad (1928 Doubleday Doran)
Richard Curle : Letters - Joseph Conrad to Richard Curle (1928 Crosby Gaige NY) - 859 copies
Liam O'Flaherty : Joseph Conrad - An Appreciation (1930 E Lahr Blue Moon Booklets No 1)
Gustav Morf : The Polish Heritage of Joseph Conrad (1930)

1931-1960
Richard Curle : Joseph Conrad 1911-1931 (1932 US) - 250 copies
Edward Crankshaw : Conrad - some aspects of the art of the novel (1936)
M C Bradbrook : Conrad - Poland's English Genius (1941 Cambridge)
F R Leavis : In His The Great Tradition (1948)
E H Visiak : The Mirror of Conrad (1955)
Gerard Jean-Aubry : The Sea Dreamer - A Definitive Biography of Conrad (1957 Allen & Unwin)
Richard Curle : Joseph Conrad and His Characters (1959 Heinemann)
Albert J Guerard : Conrad the Novelist (1958 Cambs, Mass)
Jocelyn Baines : Conrad - A Critical Biography (1959)

Since 1961
Borys Conrad : My Father - Joseph Conrad (1970 Calder & Boyars)
Wilfred S Dowden : Joseph Conrad - The Imaged Style (1970)
John Conrad : Joseph Conrad - Times Remembered (1971 Cambridge UP)
Frederick R Karl : Joseph Conrad - the Three Lives (1979)
Daniel R Schwartz : Conrad - Almayer's Folly to Under Western Eyes (1980 Macmillan)
John Conrad : Joseph Conrad - Times Remembered (1981 Cambridge)
Daniel R Schwartz : Conrad - The Later Fiction (1982 Macmillan)
Zdzislaw Hajder : Joseph Conrad - A Chronicle (1983 CUP)
(Eds) Frederick R Karl & L Davis : Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad
Norman Sherry : Conrad and His World
Jeffrey Meyers : Joseph Conrad - A Biography (1991 Murray £20)
Martin Seymour Smith : Conrad (1995 Greenwich Exchange Student Guide £6.99)
(Ed) J H Stape : The Cambridge Companion to Joseph Conrad (1996 CUP £35 & £12.95)
Zdzislaw Najder : Conrad in Perspective - Essays on Art & Fidelity (1997 CUP £35)