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Joseph Conrad was born in Berdichev, Kiev Province, now the Ukraine, to Polish parents Apollo Korzeniowski and Ewa Bobrowska. His father was a political activist and he and his family were exiled after he was suspected of involvement with revolutionary activities. Conrad had no friends as a child and rarely associated with boys or girls. His mother had always been a sickly person and died of tuberculosis in 1865. Conrad's father sent him to live with his uncle and pursue his education in France. Conrad's father died in 1869, also of tuberculosis. Conrad became an officer on British ships and spent two decades on various ships. Conrad was inspired to write "Heart of Darkness" after voyaging to Congo in 1890. In 1894, Conrad published his first novel and in 1896 he married Jessie George, an on-again off-again girlfriend. Conrad had few friends in adulthood, mainly fellow authors such as Stephen Crane and Henry James. Conrad died of a heart attack in 1924.

(1910) Novel: &quot;Under Western Eyes&quot;. NOTE: Filmed as <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/title/tt0028288/?ref_=nmwrk">Under Western Eyes (1936)</a>.

(1910) Novel: &quot;Within the Tides&quot;

(1895) Novel: &quot;A Lawyer&#39;s Follies&quot;

(1899) Novel: &quot;Heart of Darkness&quot;. NOTE: Filmed as <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/title/tt0078788/?ref_=nmwrk">Apocalypse Now (1979)</a>.

(1899) Novel: &quot;Lord Jim&quot;. NOTE: Filmed as <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/title/tt0059399/?ref_=nmwrk">Lord Jim (1965)</a>, <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/title/tt0016037/?ref_=nmwrk">Lord Jim (1925)</a>.

(1906) Novel: &quot;The Secret Agent&quot;. NOTE: Filmed as <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/title/tt0028231/?ref_=nmwrk">Secret Agent (1936)</a>.

(1909) Novella: &quot;The Secret Sharer&quot;. NOTE: Filmed as <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/title/tt0044601/?ref_=nmwrk">Face to Face (1952)</a>.

(1920) Novel: &quot;The Rescue&quot;. NOTE: Filmed as <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/title/tt0020323/?ref_=nmwrk">The Rescue (1929)</a>.

(1915) Novel: &quot;Victory&quot;. NOTE: Filmed as <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/title/tt0033220/?ref_=nmwrk">Victory (1940)</a>, <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/title/tt0010844/?ref_=nmwrk">Victory (1919)</a>, <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/title/tt0114846/?ref_=nmwrk">Victory (1996)</a>.

(1897) Book: &quot;The Nigger of the &#39;Narcissus&#39;&quot;. London: Longman&#39;s, Green and Co.

(1925) Novel (w/<a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/name/nm0285642/?ref_=nmwrk">Ford Madox Ford</a>): &quot;Nature of a Crime&quot;.

(1896) Novel: &quot;An Outcast of the Islands&quot;. NOTE: Filmed as <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/title/tt0045002/?ref_=nmwrk">Outcast of the Islands (1951)</a>.

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