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Joseph Conrad
English author Joseph Conrad.
During his childhood, Joseph Conrad read the works of Sir Walter Scott, James Fenimore Cooper, Charles Dickens, and William Makepeace Thackeray in Polish and French translations. Additionally, at the age of eight, he was introduced to the English language while his father was translating the works of William Shakespeare and Victor Hugo.1