Joseph Conradās original name was JĆ³zef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski. He adopted the pen name Joseph Conrad in April 1895 with the publication of his novel Almayerās Folly. Born in 1857 to Polish parents in what is now Ukraine, he learned to read English at a young age and learned to speak the language at age 21. He became a British subject in 1886.
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