The Several Lives of Joseph ConradThe Several Lives of Joseph Conrad is the first new biography in more than a decade of one of modern literatures most important writers whose work remains widely read and acutely relevant eighty years after his death. In this authoritative, insightful book, we see Joseph Conrad as a man who consistently reinvented himself. Born in 1857 in Berdichev, Ukraine, he left home early and worked as a sailor out of Marseilles; traveled to the Far East and