Thursday 1:17 pm Michael Landweber Coffeetown Press Release Date: May 1, 2016 ISBN 978-1-60381-357-0 Every once in a while a book lands on my desk that I’ve never heard of, where the author is not known to me. Sometimes the premise is intriguing, and I crack it open to give […]
Birthdays
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.