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Life and Writings of Joseph Conrad

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then under Russian rule. His father Apollo Korzeniowski was a poet and translator of English and French literature" (ClassicReader.com). As a young boy he "read Polish and French versions of  English novels with his father. When Apollo Korzeniowski became embroiled in political activities, he was sent to exile with his family to Volgoda, northern Russia, in 1861" (ClassicReader.com). By  the year 1869 both of Conrads parents had died from tuberculosis. At that point in his life "he was sent to Switzerland to his maternal uncle Tadeusz Bobrowski, who was  to be a continuing influence on his life. Conrad attended schools in Krak?w and persuaded his uncle to let him go to the sea" and in "the mid-1870s he joined  the French merchant marine as an apprentice, and made three voyages to the West Indies between 1875 and 1878. During his youth Conrad also was involved in arms smuggling for  the Carlist cause in Spain" (ClassicReader.com). He was once wounded in a duel, or possibly a "self-inflicted gunshot in the chest," and yet "continued his career at the seas  for 16 years in the British merchant navy. He rose through the ranks from common seaman to first mate, and by 1886 he obtained his master mariners certificate, commanding his  own ship, Otago" (ClassicReader.com). The same year also saw him become an official British citizen. "In the following years Conrad sailed to many parts of the world, including Australia,  various ports of the Indian Ocean, Borneo, the Malay states, South America, and the South Pacific Island. In 1890 he sailed in Africa up the Congo River" which was a  journey that would provide a great deal of material for his famous "Heart of Darkness" (ClassicReader.com). It was the fabled East Indies which "particularly attracted Conrad and it became the