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Feb 06, 2013 | ISBN 9780307816603 Buy
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Feb 06, 2013 | ISBN 9780307816603
“For it can hardly be denied that it is not their own desserts that men are most proud of, but rather of their prodigious luck, of their marvelous fortune,” wrote Conrad of Youth. In it he captures a young man’s exhilaration in the face of danger and the unknown.
Joseph Conrad was born in Berdichev, Ukraine, in 1857. After both of his parents died of tuberculosis, Conrad went to live with his uncle in Switzerland. After attending school in Kraków, he joined the French and then the British merchant marines,… More about Joseph Conrad
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