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BIOGRAPHY JOSEPH CONRAD WAS GUARDED, SO HIS BIOGRAPHER SHOULDN'T BE, SAYS CAROLINE MOORE

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From: The Sunday Telegraph London
Date: 20070826
Author:Caroline Moore

The Several Lives of

Joseph Conrad

BY JOHN STAPE

HEINEMANN, pounds 20, 378 pp

T pounds 18 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115

In June 1878, a British steamer, the Mavis, docked at Lowestoft, and a 20-year-old Ukrainian sailor, Jozef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, set foot for the first time on British soil. His first language was Polish, and he was fluent in French, but (according to one account) could speak only six words of English on his arrival. Within 10 years he became the only Polish-Ukrainian to gain a Master's certificate in the British Merchant Marine service; but it is not for this ...

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