Typhoon

Joseph Conrad (1857 - 1924) was a Polish-British writer regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language. He joined the British merchant marine in 1878, and was granted British nationality in 1886. Though he did not speak English fluently until his twenties, he was a master prose stylist. His stories and novels, many with a nautical setting, depict trials of the human spirit in the midst of an impassive, inscrutable universe.