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Classic short story. According to Wikipedia: "e;Joseph Conrad (1857 - 1924) was a Polish-born English novelist.

Many critics regard him as one of the greatest novelists in the English language-a fact that is remarkable, as he did not learn to speak English fluently until he was in his twenties (and always with a strong Polish accent).

He became a naturalized British subject in 1886. Conrad is recognized as a master prose stylist. Some of his works have a strain of romanticism, but more importantly he is recognized as an important forerunner of modernist literature.

His narrative style and anti-heroic characters have influenced many writers, including Ernest Hemingway, D.

H. Lawrence, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Graham Greene, William S. Burroughs, Joseph Heller, V.S. Naipaul, Italo Calvino and J. M. Coetzee."e;