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LORD JIM: A TALE
JOSEPH CONRAD (Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski) was born in December 1857 in Berdichev (now in the Ukraine) of Polish parents. His father, a poet and translator, and his mother were exiled for nationalist activities and died when he was a child. He grew up and was educated informally in Lemberg (now L'viv) and Cracow, which he left for Marseilles and a career at sea in 1874. After voyages to the French Antilles, he joined the British Merchant Service in 1878, sailing first in British coastal waters and then to the Far East and Australia. In 1886, he became a British subject and received his captaincy certificate. In 1890, he was briefly in the Congo with a Belgian company. After his career at sea ended in 1894, he lived mainly in Kent. He married in 1896 and had two sons.
Conrad began writing, in his third language, in 1886. His first novels, Almayer's Folly (1895) and An Outcast of the Islands (1896), were immediately hailed as the work of a significant new talent. He produced his major fiction from about 1897 to 1911, a period that saw the publication of The Nigger of the ‘Narcissus’ (1897), Heart of Darkness (1898–9), Lord Jim (1900) and the political novels Nostromo (1904), The Secret Agent (1907) and Under Western Eyes (1911). Considered ‘difficult’, his writing received considerable critical acclaim, but not until 1914 after the appearance of Chance did it win a wide public. The dazzling narrative experiments and thematic complexities of Conrad's earlier fiction are largely absent from his later writings, pitched to a more popular audience.
Fame saw the offer of honorary degrees and a knighthood (both declined) capped by a triumphal publicity tour in America in 1923. In addition to novels, Conrad produced short stories, plays, several essays and two autobiographical volumes, The Mirror of the Sea (1906) and A Personal Record (1908–9). He died in August 1924 at the age of sixty-six.
ALLAN H. SIMMONS is Reader in English Literature at St Mary's College, Strawberry Hill, London. Author of Joseph Conrad (2006) for Palgrave and Heart of Darkness for Continuum's ‘Reader's Guides Series’ (2007), he edited the ‘Centennial Edition’ of The Nigger of the ‘Narcissus’ for Everyman (1997) and coedited Lord Jim: Centennial Essays (2000) and Nostromo: Centennial Essays (2004) for Rodopi of Amsterdam. Currently editing Conrad in Context for Cambridge University Press, he is General Editor of The Conradian: The Journal of the Joseph Conrad Society (U ............

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