What was Joseph Conrad’s first published novel?

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Joseph Conrad’s first published novel was Almayer’s Folly, which was released in April 1895.1

Conrad began writing the book in 1889 while living in London and waiting for a command at sea. He eventually sent the manuscript to the London publisher Fisher Unwin in the spring of 1894. It was with the publication of this novel that he adopted the name Joseph Conrad, as he had learned that his birth name, Korzeniowski, was difficult for British readers to pronounce.1