The Cost of Hope: A Memoir Amanda Bennett Random House Publishing Group Original Edition (June 5, 2012) IBSN: 978-1-4000-6984-2 — ♦ — Amanda Bennett has lived a pretty big life so far – Harvard graduate, author, Pulitzer Prize winner, reporter for the The Wall Street Journal, editor of the Herald-Leader (Lexington, KY), […]
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On this day, December 3, in 1857, Joseph Conrad was born in Berdichev, Imperial Russia (modern
Ukraine, then a part of Poland). While he settled in England and wrote in English, he always considered himself a Pole. Heart of Darkness, one of the most famous of his 20 novels (which explores colonialism and the attitudes regarding what constitutes a barbarian versus civilized society) is considered one of the best English novels of the 20th century, as is his novel Lord Jim, which chronicles a crew’s abandonment of its disabled ship. Conrad died in England in 1924 at age 66.