Interpreting “The Secret Sharer” as an affirmation of gay identity, and then staging it as such, is certainly a valid take on ...

Mr. Conrad has no ideas, but he has a point of view, a “world”; it can hardly be defined, but it pervades his work and is unmistakable. —T. S. Eliot, “Kipling Redivivus” He [James] had a mind so fine ...

A historic London home once occupied by the Polish-British writer Joseph Conrad—whose novella “Heart of Darkness” inspired the 1979 epic film “Apocalypse Now”—is on the market for £1.7 million (US$2.3 ...

Joseph Conrad (1857-1924), the famous Polish-born author of Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim and The Secret Agent, among many other novels and short stories, is not a writer usually associated with ...

Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski (1857-1925), otherwise known as Joseph Conrad, is best known for his short story Heart of Darkness, famously adapted by Francis Ford Coppola in Apocalypse Now. Though ...

Most people hate “Heart of Darkness” the first time they read it. I certainly did, as a high school senior more than 40 years ago, hated everything from its corkscrew sentences to the way its narrator ...

In 2015, a San Diego rare book collector made literary headlines with the Christie’s auction of letters, photos and other memorabilia by “To Kill a Mockingbird” author Harper Lee. The sale coincided ...

IF Mr. Joseph Conrad appears at first glimpse as a romancer, — and it is certain that to many readers he does, — the explanation is simply that he is a deeper realist than is commonly perceived. There ...