The Galaxy Game Karen Lord Del Rey Release Date: January 6, 2015 ISBN 978-0-345-53407-1 Have you ever read a book where you weren’t exactly sure what was going on? Where you could follow the big picture, but all the little details – and there were a heckuva lot of little […]
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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.