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1Author:  Dargan, E. PrestonAdd
 Title:  The Voyages of Conrad  
 Published:  1998 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: IN 1873, A POLISH LAD of fifteen, walking in the Alps with his tutor, dismayed that gentleman by a declaration of independence. He proposed to give up his country and career, in order to take his chances on the sea. A few years later he was sailing on the Mediterranean, that "nursery of the craft." Then he realized his dream by becoming associated with the English flag — incidentally learning the English language. He went on far voyages, seeing little of Europe for a quarter of a century. Finally, he accomplished his second transformation: the Polish lad became a great writer of English. The boy was named Jozef Korzeniowski the writer is known to fame as Joseph Conrad.
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