![]() ![]() Poland held no promise already Conrad had suffered too much from the country's Russian landlords. Conrad was eleven years old, but the emotional bond between him and his father was so strong that a deep melancholy settled within the young boy much of his writing as an adult is marked by a melancholy undercurrent.Ĭonrad received a good education in Cracow, Poland, and after a trip through Italy and Switzerland, he decided not to return to his father's homeland. The poet-patriot lived only four more years. His mother died from the hardships of prison life three years later she was only thirty-four.Ĭonrad's father sent him back to his mother's brother for his education, and Conrad was never to see him again. When Conrad was five, his father was arrested for allegedly taking part in revolutionary plots against the Russians and was exiled to northern Russia Conrad and his mother went with him. ![]() ![]() Conrad's father was esteemed as a translator of Shakespeare, as well as a poet and a man of letters in Poland, and Conrad's mother was a gentle, wellborn lady with a keen mind but frail health. Joseph Conrad was born Teodor Jozef Konrad Korzeniowski on December 3, 1857, the only child of a patriotic Polish couple living in the southern Polish Ukraine. ![]()
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