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Joseph Conrad
Name:Joseph Conrad (Jozef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski)
Birth Date
ecember 3, 1857
Death Date:August 3, 1924
Place of Birth:Berdyczew, Poland
Place of Death:Bishopsbourne, England (heart attack)
Nationality:English
Gender:Male
Occupations:writer, Novelist , ship's officer
Birth Date
ecember 3, 1857Death Date:August 3, 1924
Place of Birth:Berdyczew, Poland
Place of Death:Bishopsbourne, England (heart attack)
Nationality:English
Gender:Male
Occupations:writer, Novelist , ship's officer
Joseph Conrad was born as son of Apollo Korzeniowski and Ewa nee Bobrowska, in Berdyczow (now Berdychiv, Ukraine) on 3 December 1857. Both parents were Polish, members of the local szlachta, landowning gentry-nobility (there was no legal distinction between these two classes in Poland); both were devout Roman Catholics. Until the partition of Poland between Russia, Austria-Hungary and Prussia at the end of the 18th century, Central and Western Ukraine constituted a part of the multinational Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth; most of the szlachta were ethnic Poles; most of town-dwellers were Jewish; most of the peasantry Ukrainians ("Ruthenians").It was a divided nation, with four languages, four religions, and a number of different social classes. Conrad paternal and maternal ancestors settled there in late 17th century.
Conrad's paternal grandfather, Teodor Korzeniowski, captain of the Polish army during the 1830 Insurrection against the Russian rule, lost his estate in the political turbulences of his partitioned country. He had one daughter, Emilia, sent in 1864 to exile in Russia, and three sons: Robert, killed in the 1863 Insurrection, Hilary, who died in 1878 while in compulsory exile to Siberia after the same insurrection, and Apollo, born in 1820. Apollo had a gift for languages and writing. He studied at St Petersburg University which he left before earning a degree and later supported himself by administering landed estates, writing satirical comedies (his satire, tempered by censorship, was patriotic and democratic in spirit and directed against materialism and political opportunism of Polish landowners), and translating from English (Dickens and Shakespeare), French (Victor Hugo and Alfred de Vigny) and German (Heine). He also wrote and circulated in manuscript patriotic and religious poems, in which he expressed his sympathy for oppressed Ukrainian peasantry and exhorted Poles to unswerving fidelity to the cause of their national independence.
Jozef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski (he was to use only his third given name), the only son of Apollo and Ewa, was born in Berdyczow (now Berdychiv) on 3 December 1857.
Apollo wrote his 'Baptismal Poem' for his son:
Baby son, tell yourself
You are without land, without love,
Without country, without people,
While Poland - your Mother is in her grave.
In April 1861 Apollo Korzeniowski moved to Warsaw, ostensibly to start a cultural periodical, but in fact to organise underground resistance to Russian authorities. In October 1861 he formed a clandestine ''Committee of the Movement" which was the kernel of the underground National Government of 1863. A few days later he was imprisoned in the Warsaw Citadel.
Ewa Korzeniowska and her son followed Apollo to Warsaw in October 1861, and witnessed his arrest. Ewa was also charged and questioned, but not put in custody. Little Conrad would accompany his grandmother who carried supplies to his imprisoned and ailing father. He wrote later that 'In the courtyard of this [Warsaw] Citadel - characteristically for our nation - my childhood memories begin.' The investigation, by a military tribunal, of the Korzeniowski's lasted till April 1862, but the verdict, issued in fact by the viceroy of Poland, a Russian general, preceded by two weeks the official decision of the court. Although only circumstantial evidence was produced against both Ewa and Apollo, they were sentenced to exile to Northern Russia, ''under strict police supervision". The viceroy added in his own hand: ''Mind that they do not stop on the way." They were dispatched to Vologda, known for its harsh climate.
In January 1863, for reasons of health, they were allowed to move to Chernihiv, in north-eastern Ukraine. There Ewa Korzeniowska died of tuberculosis in April 1865. Apollo was also gravely ill, and was released from exile in January 1868. He left with his son to Lwow (Lviv), then in Austro-Hungarian Empire, an important Polish cultural centre, and later moved to Cracow, ancient capital of Poland, where he died in May 1869.
Konrad's maternal uncle, Tadeusz Bobrowski, became his guardian and benefactor. Konrad was first educated by his father; a sickly boy, he never regularly attended schools, but couched by tutors passed his formal exams first in Cracow, later in Lviv. In autumn of 1874 he was sent - at least partly for health reasons - to Southern France, with the view of starting a maritime career.
As a Russian subject and son of convicts he was liable for long military service.So,He spent the next few years in France, mastering his second language and the fundamentals of seamanship. The author made acquaintances in many circles, but his "bohemian" friends were the ones who introduced him to drama, opera, and theater. In the meantime, he was strengthening his maritime contacts, and he soon became an observer on pilot boats. The workers he met on the ship, together with all the experiences they recounted to him, laid the groundwork for much of the vivid detail in his novels.
By 1878, Joseph had made his way to England with the intention of becoming an officer on a British ship. He ended up spending twenty years at sea. Conrad interspersed long voyages with time spent resting on land.
When he was not at sea, writing letters or writing in journals, Joseph was exploring other means of making money. Unlike his father, who abhorred money, Conrad was obsessed by it; he was always on the lookout for business opportunities.
For the next 20 years Conrad led a successful career as a ship's officer. In 1877 he probably took part in the illegal shipment of arms from France to Spain in support of the pretender to the Spanish throne, Don Carlos. At about this time Conrad seems to have fallen in love with a girl who was also implicated in the Carlist cause. The affair ended in a duel, which Conrad fought with an American named J. M. K. Blunt. There is evidence that early in 1878 Conrad made an attempt at suicide.
His voyages took him to Australia, India, Singapore, Java, Borneo, to those distant and exotic places which would provide the background for much of his fiction. In 1886 he was naturalized as a British citizen. He received his first command in 1888. In 1890 he made the ghastly journey to the Belgian Congo which inspired his great short novel The Heart of Darkness.
In the early 1890s Conrad had begun to think about writing fiction based on his experiences in the East, and in 1893 he discussed his work in progress, the novel Almayer's Folly, with a passenger, the novelist John Galsworthy. Although Conrad by now had a master's certificate, he was not obtaining the commands that he wanted. Almayer's Folly was published in 1895, and its favorable critical reception encouraged Conrad to begin a new career as a writer. He married an Englishwoman, Jessie George, in 1896,She was a typist, living in Peckham with her widowed mother.2 years later, just after the birth of Borys, the first of their two sons, they settled in Kent in the south of England, where Conrad lived for the rest of his life. John Galsworthy was the first of a number of English and American writers who befriended this middle-aged Polish seaman who had come so late to the profession of letters; others were Henry James, Arnold Bennett, Rudyard Kipling, Stephen Crane, and Ford Madox Hueffer (later known as Ford Madox Ford), with whom Conrad collaborated on two novels.
For the first twenty years of his writing career Conrad struggled with debts: his royalties fell far below his modest expenses. Only in summer 1914 he was able to take a longer vacation, and took his wife and two sons to Poland. The outbreak of the First World War caught them in Cracow; they spent two months in this city and then in the Tatra Mountains to the south of it. While in Cracow and Zakopane, Conrad met several Polish writers, artists and intellectuals. This was to be the last visit to his native country.
The reminiscences of his relatives and friends testify to Conrad's continued emotional involvement in the affairs of Poland and traditions of her culture (e.g., at his country home in Kent he organised private concerts of Chopin's music).
In 1924 he was offered a Knighthood but politely declined.On 3 August 1924 Joseph Conrad died at home of a heart attack. Although a sceptic much of his life he was given a Roman Catholic service at St. Thomas’s and now rests with his wife Jessie in the Westgate Court Avenue public cemetery in Canterbury, England. His name is carved into the massive rough-hewn grave stone as was given at his birth, Joseph Teodor Conrad Korzeniowski. The epitaph carved below, also the epigraph for The Rover is from Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queen and reads:
Sleep After Toyle, Port After Stormie Seas, Ease After Warre,
Death After Life Does Greatly Please
Conrad's books were read at the time as simple sea stories but are now viewed as serious novels. He is considered to be one of the finest modern novelists writing in English.
Quotes:
"A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea. If he tries to climb out into the air as inexperienced people endeavor to do, he drowns."
"It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when it is human, soon takes upon itself a face of pain; and some of our grieves... have their source in weaknesses which must be recognized with smiling compassion as the common inheritance of us all."
"The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it."
"You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends."
"The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness."
"Danger lies in the writer becoming the victim of his own exaggeration, losing the exact notion of sincerity, and in the end coming to despise truth itself as something too cold, too blunt for his purpose -- as, in fact, not good enough for his insistent emotion. From laughter and tears the descent is easy to sniveling and giggles."
***
Works
Novels:
Almayer's Folly (1895)
An Outcast of the Islands (1896)
The Nigger of the 'Narcissus' (1897)
Heart of Darkness (1899)
Lord Jim (1900)
The Inheritors (with Ford Madox Ford) (1901)
Typhoon (1902, begun 1899)
Romance (with Ford Madox Ford, 1903)
Nostromo (1904)
The Secret Agent (1907)
Under Western Eyes (1911)
Chance (1913)
Victory (1915)
The Shadow Line (1917)
The Arrow of Gold (1919)
The Rescue (1920)
The Nature of a Crime (1923, with Ford Madox Ford)
The Rover (1923)
Suspense: a Napoleonic Novel (1925; unfinished, published posthumously
Novellas and short stories:
"The Idiots" (Conrad's first short story; written during his honeymoon, published in Savo 1896 and collected in Tales of Unrest, 1898).
"The Black Mate" (written, according to Conrad, in 1886; published 1908; posthumously collected in Tales of Hearsay, 1925).
"The Lagoon" (composed 1896; published in Cornhill Magazine 1897; collected in Tales of Unrest, 1898).
"An Outpost of Progress" (written 1896 and named in 1906 by Conrad himself, long after the publication of Lord Jim and Heart of Darkness, as his 'best story'; published in Cosmopolis 1897 and collected in Tales of Unrest 1898; often compared to Heart of Darkness, with which it has numerous thematic affinities).
"The Return" (written circa early 1897; never published in magazine form; collected in Tales of Unrest, 1898; Conrad, presaging the sentiments of most readers, once remarked, "I hate it").
"Karain: A Memory" (written February–April 1897; published Nov. 1897 in Blackwood's and collected in Tales of Unrest, 1898).
"Youth" (written in 1898; collected in Youth, a Narrative and Two Other Stories, 1902)
"Falk" (novella/story, written in early 1901; collected only in Typhoon and Other Stories, 1903).
"Amy Foster" (composed in 1901; published the Illustrated London News, Dec. 1901 and collected in Typhoon and Other Stories, 1903).
"To-morrow" (written early 1902; serialized in Pall Mall Magazine, 1902 and collected in Typhoon and Other Stories, 1903).
"The End of the Tether" (written in 1902; collected in Youth, a Narrative and Two Other Stories, 1902)
"Gaspar Ruiz" (written after "Nostromo" in 1904–05; published in Strand Magazine in 1906 and collected in A Set of Six, 1908 UK/1915 US. This story was the only piece of Conrad's fiction ever adapted by the author for cinema, as Gaspar the Strong Man, 1920).
"An Anarchist" (written in late 1905; serialized in Harper's in 1906; collected in A Set of Six, 1908 UK/1915 US.)
"The Informer" (written before January 1906; published in December 1906 in Harper's and collected in A Set of Six, 1908 UK/1915 US.)
"The Brute" (written in early 1906; published in The Daily Chronicle in December 1906; collected in A Set of Six, 1908 UK/1915 US.)
"The Duel" (aka "The Point of Honor": serialized in the UK in Pall Mall Magazine in early 1908 and in the US periodical Forum later that year; collected in A Set of Six in 1908 and published by Garden City Publishing in 1924. Joseph Fouché makes a cameo appearance)
"Il Conde" (i.e., 'Conte' [count]: appeared in Cassell's [UK] 1908 and Hampton's [US] in 1909; collected in A Set of Six, 1908 UK/1915 US.)
"The Secret Sharer" (written December 1909; published in Harper's in 1910 and collected in ’Twixt Land and Sea 1912)
"Prince Roman" (written 1910, published in 1911 in the Oxford and Cambridge Review; based upon the story of Prince Roman Sanguszko of Poland 1800–1881)
"A Smile of Fortune" (a long story, almost a novella, written in mid-1910; published in London Magazine in Feb. 1911; collected in ’Twixt Land and Sea 1912)
"Freya of the Seven Isles" (another near-novella, written late 1910–early 1911; published in Metropolitan Magazine and London Magazine in early 1912 and July 1912, respectively; collected in ’Twixt Land and Sea 1912)
"The Partner" (written in 1911; published in Within the Tides, 1915)
"The Inn of the Two Witches" (written in 1913; published in Within the Tides, 1915)
"Because of the Dollars" (written in 1914; published in Within the Tides, 1915)
"The Planter of Malata" (written in 1914; published in Within the Tides, 1915)
"The Warrior's Soul" (written late 1915–early 1916; published in Land and Water, in March 1917; collected in Tales of Hearsay, 1925)
"The Tale" (Conrad's only story about World War I; written 1916 and first published 1917 in Strand Magazine)
Play:
One Day More
Films:
Apocalypse now (1979) - dir. by Francis Ford Coppola - based on Heart of Darkness
Sabotage (1936), dir. by Alfred Hitchcock, based on The Secret Agent
Conrad's paternal grandfather, Teodor Korzeniowski, captain of the Polish army during the 1830 Insurrection against the Russian rule, lost his estate in the political turbulences of his partitioned country. He had one daughter, Emilia, sent in 1864 to exile in Russia, and three sons: Robert, killed in the 1863 Insurrection, Hilary, who died in 1878 while in compulsory exile to Siberia after the same insurrection, and Apollo, born in 1820. Apollo had a gift for languages and writing. He studied at St Petersburg University which he left before earning a degree and later supported himself by administering landed estates, writing satirical comedies (his satire, tempered by censorship, was patriotic and democratic in spirit and directed against materialism and political opportunism of Polish landowners), and translating from English (Dickens and Shakespeare), French (Victor Hugo and Alfred de Vigny) and German (Heine). He also wrote and circulated in manuscript patriotic and religious poems, in which he expressed his sympathy for oppressed Ukrainian peasantry and exhorted Poles to unswerving fidelity to the cause of their national independence.
Jozef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski (he was to use only his third given name), the only son of Apollo and Ewa, was born in Berdyczow (now Berdychiv) on 3 December 1857.
Apollo wrote his 'Baptismal Poem' for his son:
Baby son, tell yourself
You are without land, without love,
Without country, without people,
While Poland - your Mother is in her grave.
In April 1861 Apollo Korzeniowski moved to Warsaw, ostensibly to start a cultural periodical, but in fact to organise underground resistance to Russian authorities. In October 1861 he formed a clandestine ''Committee of the Movement" which was the kernel of the underground National Government of 1863. A few days later he was imprisoned in the Warsaw Citadel.
Ewa Korzeniowska and her son followed Apollo to Warsaw in October 1861, and witnessed his arrest. Ewa was also charged and questioned, but not put in custody. Little Conrad would accompany his grandmother who carried supplies to his imprisoned and ailing father. He wrote later that 'In the courtyard of this [Warsaw] Citadel - characteristically for our nation - my childhood memories begin.' The investigation, by a military tribunal, of the Korzeniowski's lasted till April 1862, but the verdict, issued in fact by the viceroy of Poland, a Russian general, preceded by two weeks the official decision of the court. Although only circumstantial evidence was produced against both Ewa and Apollo, they were sentenced to exile to Northern Russia, ''under strict police supervision". The viceroy added in his own hand: ''Mind that they do not stop on the way." They were dispatched to Vologda, known for its harsh climate.
In January 1863, for reasons of health, they were allowed to move to Chernihiv, in north-eastern Ukraine. There Ewa Korzeniowska died of tuberculosis in April 1865. Apollo was also gravely ill, and was released from exile in January 1868. He left with his son to Lwow (Lviv), then in Austro-Hungarian Empire, an important Polish cultural centre, and later moved to Cracow, ancient capital of Poland, where he died in May 1869.
Konrad's maternal uncle, Tadeusz Bobrowski, became his guardian and benefactor. Konrad was first educated by his father; a sickly boy, he never regularly attended schools, but couched by tutors passed his formal exams first in Cracow, later in Lviv. In autumn of 1874 he was sent - at least partly for health reasons - to Southern France, with the view of starting a maritime career.
As a Russian subject and son of convicts he was liable for long military service.So,He spent the next few years in France, mastering his second language and the fundamentals of seamanship. The author made acquaintances in many circles, but his "bohemian" friends were the ones who introduced him to drama, opera, and theater. In the meantime, he was strengthening his maritime contacts, and he soon became an observer on pilot boats. The workers he met on the ship, together with all the experiences they recounted to him, laid the groundwork for much of the vivid detail in his novels.
By 1878, Joseph had made his way to England with the intention of becoming an officer on a British ship. He ended up spending twenty years at sea. Conrad interspersed long voyages with time spent resting on land.
When he was not at sea, writing letters or writing in journals, Joseph was exploring other means of making money. Unlike his father, who abhorred money, Conrad was obsessed by it; he was always on the lookout for business opportunities.
For the next 20 years Conrad led a successful career as a ship's officer. In 1877 he probably took part in the illegal shipment of arms from France to Spain in support of the pretender to the Spanish throne, Don Carlos. At about this time Conrad seems to have fallen in love with a girl who was also implicated in the Carlist cause. The affair ended in a duel, which Conrad fought with an American named J. M. K. Blunt. There is evidence that early in 1878 Conrad made an attempt at suicide.
His voyages took him to Australia, India, Singapore, Java, Borneo, to those distant and exotic places which would provide the background for much of his fiction. In 1886 he was naturalized as a British citizen. He received his first command in 1888. In 1890 he made the ghastly journey to the Belgian Congo which inspired his great short novel The Heart of Darkness.
In the early 1890s Conrad had begun to think about writing fiction based on his experiences in the East, and in 1893 he discussed his work in progress, the novel Almayer's Folly, with a passenger, the novelist John Galsworthy. Although Conrad by now had a master's certificate, he was not obtaining the commands that he wanted. Almayer's Folly was published in 1895, and its favorable critical reception encouraged Conrad to begin a new career as a writer. He married an Englishwoman, Jessie George, in 1896,She was a typist, living in Peckham with her widowed mother.2 years later, just after the birth of Borys, the first of their two sons, they settled in Kent in the south of England, where Conrad lived for the rest of his life. John Galsworthy was the first of a number of English and American writers who befriended this middle-aged Polish seaman who had come so late to the profession of letters; others were Henry James, Arnold Bennett, Rudyard Kipling, Stephen Crane, and Ford Madox Hueffer (later known as Ford Madox Ford), with whom Conrad collaborated on two novels.
For the first twenty years of his writing career Conrad struggled with debts: his royalties fell far below his modest expenses. Only in summer 1914 he was able to take a longer vacation, and took his wife and two sons to Poland. The outbreak of the First World War caught them in Cracow; they spent two months in this city and then in the Tatra Mountains to the south of it. While in Cracow and Zakopane, Conrad met several Polish writers, artists and intellectuals. This was to be the last visit to his native country.
The reminiscences of his relatives and friends testify to Conrad's continued emotional involvement in the affairs of Poland and traditions of her culture (e.g., at his country home in Kent he organised private concerts of Chopin's music).
In 1924 he was offered a Knighthood but politely declined.On 3 August 1924 Joseph Conrad died at home of a heart attack. Although a sceptic much of his life he was given a Roman Catholic service at St. Thomas’s and now rests with his wife Jessie in the Westgate Court Avenue public cemetery in Canterbury, England. His name is carved into the massive rough-hewn grave stone as was given at his birth, Joseph Teodor Conrad Korzeniowski. The epitaph carved below, also the epigraph for The Rover is from Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queen and reads:
Sleep After Toyle, Port After Stormie Seas, Ease After Warre,
Death After Life Does Greatly Please
Conrad's books were read at the time as simple sea stories but are now viewed as serious novels. He is considered to be one of the finest modern novelists writing in English.
Quotes:
"A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea. If he tries to climb out into the air as inexperienced people endeavor to do, he drowns."
"It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when it is human, soon takes upon itself a face of pain; and some of our grieves... have their source in weaknesses which must be recognized with smiling compassion as the common inheritance of us all."
"The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it."
"You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends."
"The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness."
"Danger lies in the writer becoming the victim of his own exaggeration, losing the exact notion of sincerity, and in the end coming to despise truth itself as something too cold, too blunt for his purpose -- as, in fact, not good enough for his insistent emotion. From laughter and tears the descent is easy to sniveling and giggles."
***
Works
Novels:
Almayer's Folly (1895)
An Outcast of the Islands (1896)
The Nigger of the 'Narcissus' (1897)
Heart of Darkness (1899)
Lord Jim (1900)
The Inheritors (with Ford Madox Ford) (1901)
Typhoon (1902, begun 1899)
Romance (with Ford Madox Ford, 1903)
Nostromo (1904)
The Secret Agent (1907)
Under Western Eyes (1911)
Chance (1913)
Victory (1915)
The Shadow Line (1917)
The Arrow of Gold (1919)
The Rescue (1920)
The Nature of a Crime (1923, with Ford Madox Ford)
The Rover (1923)
Suspense: a Napoleonic Novel (1925; unfinished, published posthumously
Novellas and short stories:
"The Idiots" (Conrad's first short story; written during his honeymoon, published in Savo 1896 and collected in Tales of Unrest, 1898).
"The Black Mate" (written, according to Conrad, in 1886; published 1908; posthumously collected in Tales of Hearsay, 1925).
"The Lagoon" (composed 1896; published in Cornhill Magazine 1897; collected in Tales of Unrest, 1898).
"An Outpost of Progress" (written 1896 and named in 1906 by Conrad himself, long after the publication of Lord Jim and Heart of Darkness, as his 'best story'; published in Cosmopolis 1897 and collected in Tales of Unrest 1898; often compared to Heart of Darkness, with which it has numerous thematic affinities).
"The Return" (written circa early 1897; never published in magazine form; collected in Tales of Unrest, 1898; Conrad, presaging the sentiments of most readers, once remarked, "I hate it").
"Karain: A Memory" (written February–April 1897; published Nov. 1897 in Blackwood's and collected in Tales of Unrest, 1898).
"Youth" (written in 1898; collected in Youth, a Narrative and Two Other Stories, 1902)
"Falk" (novella/story, written in early 1901; collected only in Typhoon and Other Stories, 1903).
"Amy Foster" (composed in 1901; published the Illustrated London News, Dec. 1901 and collected in Typhoon and Other Stories, 1903).
"To-morrow" (written early 1902; serialized in Pall Mall Magazine, 1902 and collected in Typhoon and Other Stories, 1903).
"The End of the Tether" (written in 1902; collected in Youth, a Narrative and Two Other Stories, 1902)
"Gaspar Ruiz" (written after "Nostromo" in 1904–05; published in Strand Magazine in 1906 and collected in A Set of Six, 1908 UK/1915 US. This story was the only piece of Conrad's fiction ever adapted by the author for cinema, as Gaspar the Strong Man, 1920).
"An Anarchist" (written in late 1905; serialized in Harper's in 1906; collected in A Set of Six, 1908 UK/1915 US.)
"The Informer" (written before January 1906; published in December 1906 in Harper's and collected in A Set of Six, 1908 UK/1915 US.)
"The Brute" (written in early 1906; published in The Daily Chronicle in December 1906; collected in A Set of Six, 1908 UK/1915 US.)
"The Duel" (aka "The Point of Honor": serialized in the UK in Pall Mall Magazine in early 1908 and in the US periodical Forum later that year; collected in A Set of Six in 1908 and published by Garden City Publishing in 1924. Joseph Fouché makes a cameo appearance)
"Il Conde" (i.e., 'Conte' [count]: appeared in Cassell's [UK] 1908 and Hampton's [US] in 1909; collected in A Set of Six, 1908 UK/1915 US.)
"The Secret Sharer" (written December 1909; published in Harper's in 1910 and collected in ’Twixt Land and Sea 1912)
"Prince Roman" (written 1910, published in 1911 in the Oxford and Cambridge Review; based upon the story of Prince Roman Sanguszko of Poland 1800–1881)
"A Smile of Fortune" (a long story, almost a novella, written in mid-1910; published in London Magazine in Feb. 1911; collected in ’Twixt Land and Sea 1912)
"Freya of the Seven Isles" (another near-novella, written late 1910–early 1911; published in Metropolitan Magazine and London Magazine in early 1912 and July 1912, respectively; collected in ’Twixt Land and Sea 1912)
"The Partner" (written in 1911; published in Within the Tides, 1915)
"The Inn of the Two Witches" (written in 1913; published in Within the Tides, 1915)
"Because of the Dollars" (written in 1914; published in Within the Tides, 1915)
"The Planter of Malata" (written in 1914; published in Within the Tides, 1915)
"The Warrior's Soul" (written late 1915–early 1916; published in Land and Water, in March 1917; collected in Tales of Hearsay, 1925)
"The Tale" (Conrad's only story about World War I; written 1916 and first published 1917 in Strand Magazine)
Play:
One Day More
Films:
Apocalypse now (1979) - dir. by Francis Ford Coppola - based on Heart of Darkness
Sabotage (1936), dir. by Alfred Hitchcock, based on The Secret Agent
SOURCES:
conrad-centre.w.interia.pl
online-literature.com
booksfactory.com
answers.com
gradesaver.com