What is especially remarkable about this achievement is the fact that having been born in Poland, he did not speak English fluently until his twenties. Joseph Conrad (1857- 1924) is regarded as one of the greatest novelists writing in the English language. His voice was deep, loud, and his manner displayed a kind of dogged self-assertion which had nothing aggressive in it, It seemed a necessity, and it was addressed apparently as much at himself as at anybody else.’ ‘He was an inch, perhaps two, under six feet, powerfully built, and he advanced straight at you with a slight stoop, and a fixed from-under stare which made you think of a charging bull. D avid Stuart Davies looks at Joseph Conrad’s tale of a man’s mission to gain redemption after an act of cowardice. ‘You shall judge of a man by his foes as well as by his friends’.
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