Table of Contents
497 relations: 'Twixt Land and Sea, A Dance to the Music of Time, A Personal Record, A Set of Six, A. N. Wilson, Able seaman, Ada Galsworthy, Adam Hochschild, Adam Mickiewicz, Albert Thys, Alexander III of Russia, Alexandre Dumas, Alfred Hitchcock, Alfred Russel Wallace, Alice Sarah Kinkead, Allusion, Almayer's Folly, Almayer's Folly (film), American Masters, Amy Foster, An Image of Africa, An Outcast of the Islands, An Outpost of Progress, Anarchism, Anatole France, André Gide, André Malraux, Andrzej Wajda, Aniela Zagórska, Anthony Powell, Anthony Quinn, Anticipations, Antihero, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Anton Chekhov, Apocalypse Now, Apollo Korzeniowski, Apostasy, Arnold Bennett, Arthur Rubinstein, Atrocities in the Congo Free State, Austria-Hungary, Baltic Sea, Bangkok, Barque, Battle of Tsushima, BBC, Beeban Kidron, Belgrave Square, Berau Regency, ... Expand index (447 more) »
- 19th-century Polish novelists
- British essayists
- British psychological fiction writers
- Clan of Nałęcz
- PEN International
- People from Berdichevsky Uyezd
- People from Stanford-le-Hope
- People from the Borough of Ashford
- People from the City of Canterbury
- Philosophers of pessimism
- Polish male short story writers
- Polish political writers
- Polish travel writers
- Polish writers in English
'Twixt Land and Sea
‘Twixt Land and Sea is a collection of three works of short fiction by Joseph Conrad published in 1912 by J. M. Dent publishers.
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A Dance to the Music of Time
A Dance to the Music of Time is a 12-volume roman-fleuve by English writer Anthony Powell, published between 1951 and 1975 to critical acclaim.
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A Personal Record
A Personal Record is an autobiographical work (or "fragment of biography") by Joseph Conrad, published in 1912.
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A Set of Six
A Set of Six is a collection of six works of short fiction by Joseph Conrad, each appearing in literary journals between 1906 and 1908.
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A. N. Wilson
Andrew Norman Wilson (born 27 October 1950) is an English writer and newspaper columnist known for his critical biographies, novels and works of popular history.
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Able seaman
An able seaman (AB) is a seaman and member of the deck department of a merchant ship with more than two years' experience at sea and considered "well acquainted with his duty".
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Ada Galsworthy
Ada Nemesis Galsworthy (20 November 1864 – 29 May 1956) was an English editor, translator, writer and composer.
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Adam Hochschild
Adam Hochschild (born October 5, 1942) is an American author, journalist, historian and lecturer.
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Adam Mickiewicz
Adam Bernard Mickiewicz (24 December 179826 November 1855) was a Polish poet, dramatist, essayist, publicist, translator and political activist.
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Albert Thys
Albert Thys (28 November 1849 – 10 February 1915) was a Belgian businessman who was active in the Congo Free State.
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Alexander III of Russia
Alexander III (r; 10 March 18451 November 1894) was Emperor of Russia, King of Congress Poland and Grand Duke of Finland from 13 March 1881 until his death in 1894.
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Alexandre Dumas
Alexandre Dumas (born Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie, 24 July 1802 – 5 December 1870), also known as Alexandre Dumas nocat, was a French novelist and playwright.
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Alfred Hitchcock
Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock (13 August 1899 – 29 April 1980) was an English film director.
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Alfred Russel Wallace
Alfred Russel Wallace (8 January 1823 – 7 November 1913) was an English naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist, biologist and illustrator.
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Alice Sarah Kinkead
Alice Sarah "Kinkie" Kinkead (1871–1926) was an Irish artist, she known as a painter and later in life a silversmith.
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Allusion
Allusion is a figure of speech, in which an object or circumstance from an unrelated context is referred to covertly or indirectly.
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Almayer's Folly
Almayer's Folly is Joseph Conrad's first novel, published in 1895 by T. Fisher Unwin.
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Almayer's Folly (film)
Almayer's Folly (La Folie Almayer) is a 2011 drama film directed by Chantal Akerman and starring Stanislas Merhar, Aurora Marion and Marc Barbé.
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American Masters
American Masters is a PBS television series which produces biographies on enduring writers, musicians, visual and performing artists, dramatists, filmmakers, and those who have left an indelible impression on the cultural landscape of the United States.
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Amy Foster
"Amy Foster" is a short story by Joseph Conrad written in 1901, first published in the Illustrated London News (December 1901), and collected in Typhoon and Other Stories (1903).
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An Image of Africa
"An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness" is the published and amended version of the second Chancellor's Lecture given by Nigerian writer and academic Chinua Achebe at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in February 1975.
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An Outcast of the Islands
An Outcast of the Islands is the second novel by Joseph Conrad, published in 1896, inspired by Conrad's experience as mate of a steamer, the Vidar.
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An Outpost of Progress
"An Outpost of Progress" is a short story written in July 1896 by Joseph Conrad, drawing on his own experience in Belgian Congo.
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Anarchism
Anarchism is a political philosophy and movement that is against all forms of authority and seeks to abolish the institutions it claims maintain unnecessary coercion and hierarchy, typically including the state and capitalism.
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Anatole France
italic (born italic,; 16 April 1844 – 12 October 1924) was a French poet, journalist, and novelist with several best-sellers.
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André Gide
André Paul Guillaume Gide (22 November 1869 – 19 February 1951) was a French author whose writings spanned a wide variety of styles and topics. Joseph Conrad and André Gide are modernist writers.
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André Malraux
Georges André Malraux (3 November 1901 – 23 November 1976) was a French novelist, art theorist, and minister of cultural affairs.
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Andrzej Wajda
Andrzej Witold Wajda (6 March 1926 – 9 October 2016) was a Polish film and theatre director.
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Aniela Zagórska
Aniela Zagórska (26 December 1881, in Lublin – 30 November 1943, in Warsaw) was a Polish translator who rendered into Polish nearly all the works of Joseph Conrad.
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Anthony Powell
Anthony Dymoke Powell (21 December 1905 – 28 March 2000) was an English novelist best known for his 12-volume work A Dance to the Music of Time, published between 1951 and 1975. Joseph Conrad and Anthony Powell are modernist writers.
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Anthony Quinn
Manuel Antonio Rodolfo Quinn Oaxaca (April 21, 1915 – June 3, 2001), better known by his stage name Anthony Quinn, was an American actor.
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Anticipations
Anticipations of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress upon Human Life and Thought, generally known as Anticipations, was written by H.G. Wells at the age of 34.
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Antihero
An antihero (sometimes spelled as anti-hero) or anti-heroine is a main character in a narrative (in literature, film, TV, etc.) who may lack some conventional heroic qualities and attributes, such as idealism, courage, and morality.
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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Antoine Marie Jean-Baptiste Roger, Vicomte de Saint-Exupéry, known simply as Antoine de Saint-Exupéry ((29 June 1900;– 31 July 1944), was a French writer, poet, journalist and aviator. He received several prestigious literary awards for his novella The Little Prince (Le Petit Prince) and for his lyrical aviation writings, including Wind, Sand and Stars and Night Flight (Vol de nuit). Joseph Conrad and Antoine de Saint-Exupéry are modernist writers.
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Anton Chekhov
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (29 January 1860 – 15 July 1904) was a Russian playwright and short-story writer.
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Apocalypse Now
Apocalypse Now is a 1979 American epic war film produced and directed by Francis Ford Coppola.
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Apollo Korzeniowski
Apollo Korzeniowski (21 February 1820 – 23 May 1869) was a Polish poet, playwright, translator, clandestine political activist, and father of Polish-English novelist Joseph Conrad. Joseph Conrad and Apollo Korzeniowski are clan of Nałęcz and people from the Russian Empire of Polish descent.
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Apostasy
Apostasy (defection, revolt) is the formal disaffiliation from, abandonment of, or renunciation of a religion by a person.
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Arnold Bennett
Enoch Arnold Bennett (27 May 1867 – 27 March 1931) was an English author, best known as a novelist, who wrote prolifically. Joseph Conrad and Arnold Bennett are 19th-century British short story writers and Victorian novelists.
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Arthur Rubinstein
Arthur Rubinstein KBE OMRI (Artur Rubinstein; 28 January 188720 December 1982) was a Polish-American pianist.
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Atrocities in the Congo Free State
From 1885 to 1908, many atrocities were committed in the Congo Free State (today the Democratic Republic of the Congo) under the absolute rule of King Leopold II of Belgium.
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Austria-Hungary
Austria-Hungary, often referred to as the Austro-Hungarian Empire or the Dual Monarchy, was a multi-national constitutional monarchy in Central Europe between 1867 and 1918.
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Baltic Sea
The Baltic Sea is an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that is enclosed by Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Sweden, and the North and Central European Plain.
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Bangkok
Bangkok, officially known in Thai as Krung Thep Maha Nakhon and colloquially as Krung Thep, is the capital and most populous city of Thailand.
Barque
A barque, barc, or bark is a type of sailing vessel with three or more masts consisting of a fore mast, mainmast and additional masts rigged square and only the aftmost mast (mizzen in three-masted barques) rigged fore and aft.
Battle of Tsushima
The Battle of Tsushima (Цусимское сражение, Tsusimskoye srazheniye), also known in Japan as the, was the final naval battle of the Russo-Japanese War, fought on 27–28 May 1905 in the Tsushima Strait.
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BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England.
Beeban Kidron
Beeban Tania Kidron, Baroness Kidron, (born 2 May 1961), is a British politician.
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Belgrave Square
Belgrave Square is a large 19th-century garden square in London.
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Berau Regency
Berau Regency (Kabupaten Berau, Berau: Barrau) is the most northern of the seven regencies in North Kalimantan province in Indonesia.
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Berdychiv
Berdychiv (Бердичів) is a historic city in Zhytomyr Oblast, northern Ukraine.
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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, (18 May 1872 – 2 February 1970) was a British mathematician, logician, philosopher, and public intellectual.
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Birth certificate
A birth certificate is a vital record that documents the birth of a person.
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Bishopsbourne
Bishopsbourne is a mostly rural and wooded village and civil parish in Kent, England.
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Blackwood's Magazine
Blackwood's Magazine was a British magazine and miscellany printed between 1817 and 1980.
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Bob Hoskins
Robert William Hoskins (26 October 1942 – 29 April 2014) was an English actor and film director.
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Bolesław Prus
Aleksander Głowacki (20 August 1847 – 19 May 1912), better known by his pen name Bolesław Prus, was a Polish novelist, a leading figure in the history of Polish literature and philosophy, as well as a distinctive voice in world literature. Joseph Conrad and Bolesław Prus are 19th-century Polish novelists, 20th-century Polish novelists, Polish essayists, Polish male novelists and Polish male short story writers.
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Boris Karloff
William Henry Pratt (23 November 1887 – 2 February 1969), known professionally as Boris Karloff and occasionally billed as Karloff the Uncanny, was an English actor.
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Borneo
Borneo (also known as Kalimantan in the Indonesian language) is the third-largest island in the world, with an area of.
Botswana
Botswana, officially the Republic of Botswana, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa.
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British Empire
The British Empire comprised the dominions, colonies, protectorates, mandates, and other territories ruled or administered by the United Kingdom and its predecessor states.
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Bronisław Malinowski
Bronisław Kasper Malinowski (7 April 1884 – 16 May 1942) was a Polish-British anthropologist and ethnologist whose writings on ethnography, social theory, and field research have exerted a lasting influence on the discipline of anthropology. Joseph Conrad and Bronisław Malinowski are naturalised citizens of the United Kingdom.
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Bronisława Dłuska
Bronisława Dłuska (28 March 186515 April 1939) was a Polish physician, and co-founder and first director of Warsaw's Maria Skłodowska-Curie Institute of Oncology.
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Bruno Winawer
Bruno Winawer (17 March 1883, Warsaw, Poland – 11 April 1944, Opole Lubelskie, Poland) was a Jewish-descended Polish physicist, columnist, and author of comedies, science fiction novels, short stories, and poetry.
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Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires, officially the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, is the capital and primate city of Argentina.
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Calque
In linguistics, a calque or loan translation is a word or phrase borrowed from another language by literal word-for-word or root-for-root translation.
Canterbury
Canterbury is a city and UNESCO World Heritage Site, in the county of Kent, England; it was a county borough until 1974.
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Cardiff
Cardiff (Caerdydd) is the capital and largest city of Wales.
Carol Reed
Sir Carol Reed (30 December 1906 – 25 April 1976) was an English film director and producer, best known for Odd Man Out (1947), The Fallen Idol (1948), The Third Man (1949), and Oliver! (1968), for which he was awarded the Academy Award for Best Director.
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Cassell's Magazine
Cassell's Magazine is a British magazine that was published monthly from 1897 to 1912.
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CBS
CBS Broadcasting Inc., commonly shortened to CBS (an abbreviation of its original name, Columbia Broadcasting System), is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the CBS Entertainment Group division of Paramount Global and is one of the company's three flagship subsidiaries, along with namesake Paramount Pictures and MTV.
Censer
A censer, incense burner, perfume burner or pastille burner is a vessel made for burning incense or perfume in some solid form.
Central Powers
The Central Powers, also known as the Central Empires,Mittelmächte; Központi hatalmak; İttıfâq Devletleri, Bağlaşma Devletleri; translit were one of the two main coalitions that fought in World War I (1914–1918).
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Chamber opera
Chamber opera is a designation for operas written to be performed with a chamber ensemble rather than a full orchestra.
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Chance (Conrad novel)
Chance is a novel by Joseph Conrad, published in 1913, following serial publication the previous year.
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Chantal Akerman
Chantal Anne Akerman (6 June 19505 October 2015) was a Belgian film director, screenwriter, artist, and film professor at the City College of New York.
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Charlatan
A charlatan (also called a swindler or mountebank) is a person practicing quackery or a similar confidence trick in order to obtain money, power, fame, or other advantages through pretense or deception.
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Charles Dickens
Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English novelist, journalist, short story writer and social critic. Joseph Conrad and Charles Dickens are 19th-century British short story writers and Victorian novelists.
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Charles Granville
Charles Granville was an English book publisher, publishing in the 1900s and early 1910s as Stephen Swift or Stephen Swift Ltd.
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Charles Marlow
Charles Marlow is a fictional English seaman and recurring character in the work of novelist Joseph Conrad.
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Chernihiv
Chernihiv (Чернігів,; Chernigov) is a city and municipality in northern Ukraine, which serves as the administrative center of Chernihiv Oblast and Chernihiv Raion within the oblast.
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Chinua Achebe
Chinua Achebe (born Albert Chinụalụmọgụ Achebe; 16 November 1930 – 21 March 2013) was a Nigerian novelist, poet, and critic who is regarded as a central figure of modern African literature. Joseph Conrad and Chinua Achebe are Exophonic writers.
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Circular Quay
Circular Quay is a harbour, former working port and now international passenger shipping terminal, public piazza and tourism precinct, heritage area, and transport node located in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia on the northern edge of the Sydney central business district on Sydney Cove, between Bennelong Point and The Rocks.
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Civil list
A civil list is a list of individuals to whom money is paid by the government, typically for service to the state or as honorary pensions.
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Clipper
A clipper was a type of mid-19th-century merchant sailing vessel, designed for speed.
Coat of arms
A coat of arms is a heraldic visual design on an escutcheon (i.e., shield), surcoat, or tabard (the last two being outer garments).
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Collective memory
Collective memory refers to the shared pool of memories, knowledge and information of a social group that is significantly associated with the group's identity.
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Colm Tóibín
Colm Tóibín (born 30 May 1955) is an Irish novelist, short story writer, essayist, journalist, critic, playwright and poet.
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Colonialism
Colonialism is the pursuing, establishing and maintaining of control and exploitation of people and of resources by a foreign group.
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Comparative literature
Comparative literature studies is an academic field dealing with the study of literature and cultural expression across linguistic, national, geographic, and disciplinary boundaries.
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Congo Basin
The Congo Basin (Bassin du Congo) is the sedimentary basin of the Congo River.
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Congo Free State
The Congo Free State, also known as the Independent State of the Congo (État indépendant du Congo), was a large state and absolute monarchy in Central Africa from 1885 to 1908.
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Congo River
The Congo River, formerly also known as the Zaire River, is the second-longest river in Africa, shorter only than the Nile, as well as the third-largest river in the world by discharge volume, following the Amazon and Ganges rivers. It is the world's deepest recorded river, with measured depths of around.
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Connotation
A connotation is a commonly understood cultural or emotional association that any given word or phrase carries, in addition to its explicit or literal meaning, which is its denotation.
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Constance Garnett
Constance Clara Garnett (19 December 1861 – 17 December 1946) was an English translator of nineteenth-century Russian literature.
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Corsica
Corsica (Corse; Còrsega) is an island in the Mediterranean Sea and one of the 18 regions of France.
Cosmopolis (magazine)
Cosmopolis: An International Monthly Review was a multi-lingual literary magazine published between January 1896 and November 1898.
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Crime and Punishment
Crime and Punishment (pre-reform Russian: Преступленіе и наказаніе; post-reform prʲɪstʊˈplʲenʲɪje ɪ nəkɐˈzanʲɪje) is a novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky.
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Crown of the Kingdom of Poland
The Crown of the Kingdom of Poland (Korona Królestwa Polskiego; Corona Regni Poloniae) was a political and legal idea formed in the 14th century, assuming unity, indivisibility and continuity of the state.
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Cruiser
A cruiser is a type of warship.
Cunninghame Graham
Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham (24 May 1852 – 20 March 1936) was a Scottish politician, writer, journalist and adventurer.
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Cutty Sark
Cutty Sark is a British clipper ship.
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Daily Mail
The Daily Mail is a British daily middle-market tabloid newspaper published in London.
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Demagogue
A demagogue (from Greek δημαγωγός, a popular leader, a leader of a mob, from δῆμος, people, populace, the commons + ἀγωγός leading, leader), or rabble-rouser, is a political leader in a democracy who gains popularity by arousing the common people against elites, especially through oratory that whips up the passions of crowds, appealing to emotion by scapegoating out-groups, exaggerating dangers to stoke fears, lying for emotional effect, or other rhetoric that tends to drown out reasoned deliberation and encourage fanatical popularity.
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Dentistry
Dentistry, also known as dental medicine and oral medicine, is the branch of medicine focused on the teeth, gums, and mouth.
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Doppelgänger
A doppelgänger, sometimes spelled doppelgaenger or doppelganger, is a biologically unrelated look-alike or double, of a living person.
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Dutch colonial empire
The Dutch colonial empire (Nederlandse koloniale rijk) comprised the overseas territories and trading posts controlled and administered by Dutch chartered companies—mainly the Dutch East India Company and the Dutch West India Company—and subsequently by the Dutch Republic (1581–1795), and by the modern Kingdom of the Netherlands after 1815.
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Dziady (poem)
Dziady (Forefathers' Eve) is a poetic drama by the Polish poet Adam Mickiewicz.
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E. D. Morel
Edmund Dene Morel (born Georges Edmond Pierre Achille Morel Deville; 10 July 1873 – 12 November 1924) was a French-born British journalist, author, pacifist and politician. Joseph Conrad and E. D. Morel are naturalised citizens of the United Kingdom.
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Eartha Kitt
Eartha Mae Kitt (born Eartha Mae Keith; January 17, 1927 – December 25, 2008) was an American singer and actress known for her highly distinctive singing style and her 1953 recordings of "C'est si bon" and the Christmas novelty song "Santa Baby".
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Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton (born Edith Newbold Jones; January 24, 1862 – August 11, 1937) was an American writer and designer.
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Edmund Spenser
Edmund Spenser (1552/1553 – 13 January O.S. 1599) was an English poet best known for The Faerie Queene, an epic poem and fantastical allegory celebrating the Tudor dynasty and Elizabeth I. He is recognized as one of the premier craftsmen of nascent Modern English verse, and he is considered one of the great poets in the English language.
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Edward Eastwick
Edward Backhouse Eastwick CB (181416 July 1883, Ventnor, Isle of Wight) was an English orientalist, diplomat and Conservative Member of Parliament.
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Edward Garnett
Edward William Garnett (5 January 1868 – 19 February 1937) was an English writer, critic and literary editor, who was instrumental in the publication of D. H. Lawrence's Sons and Lovers.
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Edward Said
Edward Wadie Said (1 November 1935 – 24 September 2003) was a Palestinian-American philosopher, academic, literary critic, and political activist.
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Eliza Orzeszkowa
Eliza Orzeszkowa (6 June 184118 May 1910) was a Polish novelist and a leading writer, Britannica, Retrieved 5 June 2016. Joseph Conrad and Eliza Orzeszkowa are 19th-century Polish novelists, 20th-century Polish novelists, Polish essayists and Polish political writers.
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Elstree School
Elstree School is an English preparatory school for children aged 3–13 at Woolhampton House in Woolhampton, near Newbury in the English county of Berkshire.
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Encyclopedia Americana
Encyclopedia Americana is a general encyclopedia written in American English.
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England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.
English literature
English literature is literature written in the English language from the English-speaking world.
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English orthography
English orthography is the writing system used to represent spoken English, allowing readers to connect the graphemes to sound and to meaning.
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English phonology
English phonology is the system of speech sounds used in spoken English.
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English-speaking world
The English-speaking world comprises the 88 countries and territories in which English is an official, administrative, or cultural language.
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Epigraph (literature)
In literature, an epigraph is a phrase, quotation, or poem that is set at the beginning of a document, monograph or section or chapter thereof.
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Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American novelist, short-story writer and journalist. Joseph Conrad and Ernest Hemingway are maritime writers and modernist writers.
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Essay
An essay is, generally, a piece of writing that gives the author's own argument, but the definition is vague, overlapping with those of a letter, a paper, an article, a pamphlet, and a short story.
European Movement International
The European Movement International is a lobbying association that coordinates the efforts of associations and national councils with the goal of promoting European integration, and disseminating information about it.
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European Union
The European Union (EU) is a supranational political and economic union of member states that are located primarily in Europe.
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Evelyn Waugh
Arthur Evelyn St.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940) was an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer. Joseph Conrad and F. Scott Fitzgerald are modernist writers.
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Falk (short story)
"Falk: A Reminiscence" is a work of short fiction by Joseph Conrad.
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First Partition of Poland
The First Partition of Poland took place in 1772 as the first of three partitions that eventually ended the existence of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth by 1795.
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Fisherman's Wharf, San Francisco
Fisherman's Wharf is a neighborhood and popular tourist attraction in San Francisco, California, United States.
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Ford Madox Ford
Ford Madox Ford (né Joseph Leopold Ford Hermann Madox Hueffer; 17 December 1873 – 26 June 1939) was an English novelist, poet, critic and editor whose journals The English Review and The Transatlantic Review were important in the development of early 20th-century English and American literature. Joseph Conrad and Ford Madox Ford are modernist writers.
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Foreign Affairs
Foreign Affairs is an American magazine of international relations and U.S. foreign policy published by the Council on Foreign Relations, a nonprofit, nonpartisan, membership organization and think tank specializing in U.S. foreign policy and international affairs.
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Fort-de-France
Fort-de-France (Fodfwans) is a commune and the capital city of Martinique, an overseas department and region of France located in the Caribbean.
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Fox (ship)
The Fox was an 1854 steam yacht commanded by Leopold McClintock on a privately funded 1857–1859 expedition to the North American Arctic Archipelago to search for clues about the fate of Franklin's lost expedition.
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Francis Ford Coppola
Francis Ford Coppola (born 7 April 1939) is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter.
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Franglais
Franglais or Frenglish is a French blend that referred first to the overuse of English words by French speakers and later to diglossia or the macaronic mixture of French (français) and English (anglais).
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Frederick Marryat
Captain Frederick Marryat (10 July 1792 – 9 August 1848) was a Royal Navy officer and a novelist. Joseph Conrad and Frederick Marryat are maritime writers and Victorian novelists.
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Frederick R. Karl
Frederick Robert Karl (1927–2004) was a literary biographer, best known for his work on Joseph Conrad, a literary critic, and an editor.
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Fredric March
Fredric March (born Ernest Frederick McIntyre Bickel; August 31, 1897 – April 14, 1975) was an American actor, regarded as one of Hollywood's most celebrated stars of the 1930s and 1940s.
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French invasion of Russia
The French invasion of Russia, also known as the Russian campaign (Campagne de Russie) and in Russia as the Patriotic War of 1812 (Otéchestvennaya voyná 1812 góda), was initiated by Napoleon with the aim of compelling the Russian Empire to comply with the continental blockade of the United Kingdom.
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French Third Republic
The French Third Republic (Troisième République, sometimes written as La IIIe République) was the system of government adopted in France from 4 September 1870, when the Second French Empire collapsed during the Franco-Prussian War, until 10 July 1940, after the Fall of France during World War II led to the formation of the Vichy government.
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Full-rigged ship
A full-rigged ship or fully rigged ship is a sailing vessel with a sail plan of three or more masts, all of them square-rigged.
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Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (. Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary. Ѳедоръ Михайловичъ Достоевскій.|Fyodor Mikhaylovich Dostoyevskiy|p.
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G. W. Stephen Brodsky
Gabriel Wilfrid Stephen Brodsky (born 19 November 1933) is a research scholar and author in Literature of War and in Joseph Conrad studies.
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Gabriel García Márquez
Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez (6 March 1927 – 17 April 2014) was a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter, and journalist, known affectionately as Gabo or Gabito throughout Latin America.
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Gabrielle (2005 film)
Gabrielle is a 2005 French film directed by Patrice Chéreau.
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Gallicism
A Gallicism can be.
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Gérard Depardieu
Gérard Xavier Marcel Depardieu (born 27 December 1948) is a French actor, known to be one of the most prolific in film history.
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Gdynia
Gdynia (Gdiniô; Gdingen, Gotenhafen) is a city in northern Poland and a seaport on the Baltic Sea coast.
Geneva
Geneva (Genève)Genf; Ginevra; Genevra.
George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950), known at his insistence as Bernard Shaw, was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist. Joseph Conrad and George Bernard Shaw are PEN International and Victorian novelists.
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George Charles Beresford
George Charles Beresford (10 July 1864 – 21 February 1938) was a British studio photographer, originally from Drumlease, Dromahair, County Leitrim.
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George Orwell
Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950) was a British novelist, poet, essayist, journalist, and critic who wrote under the pen name of George Orwell, a name inspired by his favourite place River Orwell. Joseph Conrad and George Orwell are modernist writers.
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Georges Franju
Georges Franju (12 April 1912 – 5 November 1987) was a French filmmaker.
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Georges Jean-Aubry
Georges Jean-Aubry (also Gérard Jean-Aubry, or G Jean-Aubry) was the pen-name of Jean-Frédéric-Emile Aubry (1882–1950), a French music critic and translator.
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Gerald Basil Edwards
Gerald Basil Edwards (G. B. Edwards) (July 8, 1899 – December 29, 1976) was a British author.
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Giorgio Moser
Giorgio Moser (9 October 1923 – 25 September 2004) was an Italian film director and screenwriter.
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Giuseppe Garibaldi
Giuseppe Maria Garibaldi (In his native Ligurian language, he is known as Gioxeppe Gaibado. In his particular Niçard dialect of Ligurian, he was known as Jousé or Josep. 4 July 1807 – 2 June 1882) was an Italian general, patriot, revolutionary and republican.
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Given name
A given name (also known as a forename or first name) is the part of a personal name quoted in that identifies a person, potentially with a middle name as well, and differentiates that person from the other members of a group (typically a family or clan) who have a common surname.
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Glossary of French words and expressions in English
Many words in the English vocabulary are of French origin, most coming from the Anglo-Norman spoken by the upper classes in England for several hundred years after the Norman Conquest, before the language settled into what became Modern English.
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Gout
Gout is a form of inflammatory arthritis characterized by recurrent attacks of pain in a red, tender, hot, and swollen joint, caused by the deposition of needle-like crystals of uric acid known as monosodium urate crystals.
Grażyna (poem)
Grażyna is an 1823 narrative poem by Adam Mickiewicz, written in the summer of 1822 during a year-long sabbatical in Vilnius, while away from his teaching duties in Kaunas.
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Graham Greene
Henry Graham Greene (2 October 1904 – 3 April 1991) was an English writer and journalist regarded by many as one of the leading novelists of the 20th century.
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Gulf of Mexico
The Gulf of Mexico (Golfo de México) is an ocean basin and a marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean, mostly surrounded by the North American continent.
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Gustave Flaubert
Gustave Flaubert (12 December 1821 – 8 May 1880) was a French novelist.
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H. G. Wells
Herbert George Wells (21 September 1866 – 13 August 1946) was an English writer. Joseph Conrad and H. G. Wells are 19th-century British short story writers, British psychological fiction writers, people of the Victorian era and Victorian novelists.
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H. L. Mencken
Henry Louis Mencken (September 12, 1880 – January 29, 1956) was an American journalist, essayist, satirist, cultural critic, and scholar of American English.
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Haiti
Haiti, officially the Republic of Haiti, is a country on the island of Hispaniola in the Caribbean Sea, east of Cuba and Jamaica, and south of The Bahamas.
Hanyut
Hanyut (Drifting) is a Malaysian adventure drama film written and directed by U-Wei Haji Saari based upon Joseph Conrad's 1895 novel, Almayer's Folly.
Hard Times (novel)
Hard Times: For These Times (commonly known as Hard Times) is the tenth novel by Charles Dickens, first published in 1854.
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Harper's Magazine
Harper's Magazine is a monthly magazine of literature, politics, culture, finance, and the arts.
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HarperCollins
HarperCollins Publishers LLC is a British-American publishing company that is considered to be one of the "Big Five" English-language publishers, along with Penguin Random House, Hachette, Macmillan, and Simon & Schuster.
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Heart of Darkness
Heart of Darkness is an 1899 novella by Polish-English novelist Joseph Conrad in which the sailor Charles Marlow tells his listeners the story of his assignment as steamer captain for a Belgian company in the African interior.
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Heart of Darkness (1993 film)
Heart of Darkness is a 1993 television film adaptation of Joseph Conrad’s famous 1899 novella written by Benedict Fitzgerald, directed by Nicolas Roeg, and starring Tim Roth, John Malkovich, Isaach De Bankolé and James Fox.
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Heart of Darkness (opera)
Heart of Darkness is a chamber opera in one act by Tarik O'Regan, with an English-language libretto by artist Tom Phillips, based on the 1899 novella of the same name by Joseph Conrad.
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Henry James
Henry James (–) was an American-British author. Joseph Conrad and Henry James are naturalised citizens of the United Kingdom and Victorian novelists.
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Henry Newbolt
Sir Henry John Newbolt, CH (6 June 1862 – 19 April 1938) was an English poet, novelist and historian.
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Henryk Sienkiewicz
Henryk Adam Aleksander Pius Sienkiewicz (5 May 1846 – 15 November 1916), also known by the pseudonym Litwos, was an epic Polish writer. Joseph Conrad and Henryk Sienkiewicz are 19th-century Polish novelists, 20th-century Polish novelists, Polish male novelists and Polish male short story writers.
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Herbert Hamblen
Herbert Elliott Hamblen (December 24, 1849 - April 6, 1908) was an American author.
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HMS Danae (D44)
HMS Danae was the lead ship of the cruisers (also known as the D class), serving with the Royal Navy between the world wars and with the Polish Navy during the latter part of World War II as ORP Conrad.
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Homage (arts)
Homage is a show or demonstration of respect or dedication to someone or something, sometimes by simple declaration but often by some more oblique reference, artistic or poetic.
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Hugh Walpole
Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole, CBE (13 March 18841 June 1941) was an English novelist.
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Human nature
Human nature comprises the fundamental dispositions and characteristics—including ways of thinking, feeling, and acting—that humans are said to have naturally.
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Human rights
Human rights are moral principles or normsJames Nickel, with assistance from Thomas Pogge, M.B.E. Smith, and Leif Wenar, 13 December 2013, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy,.
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Ian Watt
Ian Watt (9 March 1917 – 13 December 1999) was a literary critic, literary historian and professor of English at Stanford University.
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IMDb
IMDb (an acronym for Internet Movie Database) is an online database of information related to films, television series, podcasts, home videos, video games, and streaming content online – including cast, production crew and personal biographies, plot summaries, trivia, ratings, and fan and critical reviews.
Imperialism
Imperialism is the practice, theory or attitude of maintaining or extending power over foreign nations, particularly through expansionism, employing both hard power (military and economic power) and soft power (diplomatic power and cultural imperialism).
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Impressionism
Impressionism was a 19th-century art movement characterized by relatively small, thin, yet visible brush strokes, open composition, emphasis on accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities (often accentuating the effects of the passage of time), ordinary subject matter, unusual visual angles, and inclusion of movement as a crucial element of human perception and experience.
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Impressionism (literature)
Literary Impressionism is influenced by the European Impressionist art movement; as such, many writers adopted a style that relied on associations.
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Impressionism in music
Impressionism in music was a movement among various composers in Western classical music (mainly during the late 19th and early 20th centuries) whose music focuses on mood and atmosphere, "conveying the moods and emotions aroused by the subject rather than a detailed tone‐picture".
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Indian Ocean
The Indian Ocean is the third-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, covering or approx.
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Intelligentsia
The intelligentsia is a status class composed of the university-educated people of a society who engage in the complex mental labours by which they critique, shape, and lead in the politics, policies, and culture of their society; as such, the intelligentsia consists of scholars, academics, teachers, journalists, and literary writers.
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International waters
The terms international waters or transboundary waters apply where any of the following types of bodies of water (or their drainage basins) transcend international boundaries: oceans, large marine ecosystems, enclosed or semi-enclosed regional seas and estuaries, rivers, lakes, groundwater systems (aquifers), and wetlands.
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Irish republicanism
Irish republicanism (poblachtánachas Éireannach) is the political movement for an Irish republic, void of any British rule.
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Irony
Irony, in its broadest sense, is the juxtaposition of what on the surface appears to be the case and what is actually the case or to be expected.
Isabelle Huppert
Isabelle Anne Madeleine Huppert (born 16 March 1953) is a French actress.
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Ivan Turgenev
Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (Иванъ Сергѣевичъ Тургеневъ.|p.
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J. I. M. Stewart
John Innes Mackintosh Stewart (30 September 1906 – 12 November 1994) was a Scottish novelist and academic.
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J. M. Coetzee
John Maxwell Coetzee FRSL OMG (born 9 February 1940) is a South African and Australian novelist, essayist, linguist, translator and recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature.
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Jacob Epstein
Sir Jacob Epstein (10 November 1880 – 21 August 1959) was an American-British sculptor who helped pioneer modern sculpture. Joseph Conrad and Jacob Epstein are naturalised citizens of the United Kingdom.
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Jagiellonian University
The Jagiellonian University (UJ) is a public research university in Kraków, Poland.
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Jaime Humberto Hermosillo
Jaime Humberto Hermosillo Delgado (22 January 1942 – 13 January 2020) was a Mexican film director, often compared to Spain's Pedro Almodóvar.
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James Brooke
Sir James Brooke, Rajah of Sarawak (29 April 1803 – 11 June 1868), was a British soldier and adventurer who founded the Raj of Sarawak in Borneo.
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James Fenimore Cooper
James Fenimore Cooper (September 15, 1789 – September 14, 1851) was an American writer of the first half of the 19th century, whose historical romances depicting colonial and indigenous characters from the 17th to the 19th centuries brought him fame and fortune.
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James Huneker
James Gibbons Huneker (January 31, 1857 – February 9, 1921) was an American art, book, music, and theater critic.
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January Uprising
The January Uprising was an insurrection principally in Russia's Kingdom of Poland that was aimed at putting an end to Russian occupation of part of Poland and regaining independence.
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Józef Piłsudski
Józef Klemens Piłsudski (5 December 1867 – 12 May 1935) was a Polish statesman who served as the Chief of State (1918–1922) and first Marshal of Poland (from 1920). Joseph Conrad and Józef Piłsudski are 19th-century Polish nobility and 20th-century Polish nobility.
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Józef Poniatowski
Prince Józef Antoni Poniatowski (7 May 1763 – 19 October 1813) was a Polish general, minister of war and army chief, who became a Marshal of the French Empire during the Napoleonic Wars.
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Józef Retinger
Józef Hieronim Retinger (World War II noms de guerre Salamandra, "Salamander", and Brzoza, "Birch Tree"; 17 April 1888 – 12 June 1960) was a Polish politician, scholar, international political activist with access to some of the leading power brokers of the 20th century, a publicist and writer. Joseph Conrad and Józef Retinger are Exophonic writers, Polish essayists and Polish political writers.
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Jeffrey Meyers
Jeffrey Meyers (born 1 April 1939 in New York City) is an American biographer and literary, art, and film critic.
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Jo Davidson
Jo Davidson (March 30, 1883 – January 2, 1952) was an American sculptor.
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Joan Didion
Joan Didion (December 5, 1934 – December 23, 2021) was an American writer and journalist.
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John Franklin
Sir John Franklin (16 April 1786 – 11 June 1847) was a British Royal Navy officer, explorer and colonial administrator.
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John Galsworthy
John Galsworthy (14 August 1867 – 31 January 1933) was an English novelist and playwright.
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John le Carré
David John Moore Cornwell (19 October 193112 December 2020), better known by his pen name John le Carré, was a British and Irish author, best known for his espionage novels, many of which were successfully adapted for film or television.
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John Malkovich
John Gavin Malkovich (born December 9, 1953) is an American actor.
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John Stanislaw Kubary
John Stanislaw Kubary (13 November 1846 in Warsaw, Congress Poland – 9 October 1896 in Pohnpei or Manila, Philippines) also stated as Jan Stanisław Kubary, Jan Kubary, or Johann Stanislaus Kubary, was a Polish naturalist and ethnographer.
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Joseph Anton: A Memoir
Joseph Anton: A Memoir is an autobiographical book by the British Indian writer Salman Rushdie, first published in September 2012 by Random House.
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Joseph Conrad Square
Joseph Conrad Square is a small triangular square at Columbus Avenue and Beach Street, near Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco, California.
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Joseph Conrad's career at sea
Joseph Conrad (born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski; Berdychiv, Ukraine, 3 December 1857 – 3 August 1924, Bishopsbourne, Kent, England) was a Polish author who wrote in English after settling in England.
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Joseph Fouché
Joseph Fouché, 1st Duc d'Otrante, 1st Comte Fouché (21 May 1759 – 25 December 1820) was a French statesman, revolutionary, and Minister of Police under First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte, who later became a subordinate of Emperor Napoleon.
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Juliusz Słowacki
Juliusz Słowacki (Jules Slowacki; 4 September 1809 – 3 April 1849) was a Polish Romantic poet. Joseph Conrad and Juliusz Słowacki are people from the Russian Empire of Polish descent.
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Kazimierz Dłuski
Kazimierz Dłuski (1855–1930) was a Polish physician, and social and political activist. Joseph Conrad and Kazimierz Dłuski are people from the Russian Empire of Polish descent.
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Kent
Kent is a county in the South East England region, the closest county to continental Europe.
Kiev Governorate
Kiev Governorate was an administrative-territorial unit (guberniya) of the Russian Empire from 1796 to 1919 and the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic from 1919 to 1925.
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King Leopold's Ghost
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa (1998) is a best-selling popular history book by Adam Hochschild that explores the exploitation of the Congo Free State by King Leopold II of Belgium between 1885 and 1908, as well as the large-scale atrocities committed during that period.
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Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria
The Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, also known as Austrian Galicia or colloquially Austrian Poland, was a constituent possession of the Habsburg monarchy in the historical region of Galicia in Eastern Europe.
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Kingsley Amis
Sir Kingsley William Amis (16 April 1922 – 22 October 1995) was an English novelist, poet, critic and teacher.
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Knight
A knight is a person granted an honorary title of knighthood by a head of state (including the pope) or representative for service to the monarch, the church or the country, especially in a military capacity.
Konrad Wallenrod
Konrad Wallenrod is an 1828 narrative poem, in Polish, by Adam Mickiewicz, set in the 14th-century Grand Duchy of Lithuania.
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Kraków
(), also spelled as Cracow or Krakow, is the second-largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland.
Kresy
Eastern Borderlands (Kresy Wschodnie) or simply Borderlands (Kresy) was a term coined for the eastern part of the Second Polish Republic during the interwar period (1918–1939).
Kyiv
Kyiv (also Kiev) is the capital and most populous city of Ukraine.
Labour Party (UK)
The Labour Party is a social democratic political party in the United Kingdom that sits on the centre-left of the political spectrum.
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Lady Ottoline Morrell
Lady Ottoline Violet Anne Morrell (16 June 1873 – 21 April 1938) was an English aristocrat and society hostess.
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Language transfer
Language transfer is the application of linguistic features from one language to another by a bilingual or multilingual speaker.
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Last Essays
Last Essays is a volume of essays by Joseph Conrad, edited with an introduction by Richard Curle, and published posthumously in 1926 (London & Toronto: J. M. Dent & Sons).
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Latin
Latin (lingua Latina,, or Latinum) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.
Laughing Anne
Laughing Anne is a 1953 British adventure film directed by Herbert Wilcox and starring Wendell Corey, Margaret Lockwood, Forrest Tucker, and Ronald Shiner.
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Leopold II of Belgium
Leopold II (Léopold Louis Philippe Marie Victor; Leopold Lodewijk Filips Maria Victor; 9 April 1835 – 17 December 1909) was the second King of the Belgians from 1865 to 1909, and the founder and sole owner of the Congo Free State from 1885 to 1908.
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Leopold McClintock
Sir Francis Leopold McClintock (8 July 1819 – 17 November 1907) was an Irish explorer in the British Royal Navy, known for his discoveries in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago.
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Libretto
A libretto (an English word derived from the Italian word libretto) is the text used in, or intended for, an extended musical work such as an opera, operetta, masque, oratorio, cantata or musical.
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List of covers of Time magazine (1920s)
This is a list of people and other topics appearing on the cover of Time magazine in the 1920s.
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List of Latin phrases (U)
U.
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Listed building
In the United Kingdom, a listed building is a structure of particular architectural and/or historic interest deserving of special protection.
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Literary modernism
Modernist literature originated in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and is characterised by a self-conscious separation from traditional ways of writing in both poetry and prose fiction writing.
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Literary realism
Literary realism is a literary genre, part of the broader realism in arts, that attempts to represent subject-matter truthfully, avoiding speculative fiction and supernatural elements.
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Liverpool
Liverpool is a cathedral, port city and metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England.
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London Review of Books
The London Review of Books (LRB) is a British literary magazine published bimonthly (twice a month) that features articles and essays on fiction and non-fiction subjects, which are usually structured as book reviews.
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Lord Jim
Lord Jim is a novel by Joseph Conrad originally published as a serial in Blackwood's Magazine from October 1899 to November 1900.
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Lord Jim (1925 film)
Lord Jim is a 1925 American silent drama film starring Percy Marmont (in the title role), Noah Beery, and Duke Kahanamoku.
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Lord Jim (1965 film)
Lord Jim is a 1965 British adventure film made for Columbia Pictures in Super Panavision.
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Lublin
Lublin is the ninth-largest city in Poland and the second-largest city of historical Lesser Poland.
Luri, Haute-Corse
Luri is a commune of the Haute-Corse department of France on the island of Corsica.
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Lviv
Lviv (Львів; see below for other names) is the largest city in western Ukraine, as well as the sixth-largest city in Ukraine, with a population of It serves as the administrative centre of Lviv Oblast and Lviv Raion, and is one of the main cultural centres of Ukraine.
Malaria
Malaria is a mosquito-borne infectious disease that affects vertebrates.
Malay Archipelago
The Malay Archipelago is the archipelago between Mainland Southeast Asia and Australia, and is also called Insulindia or the Indo-Australian Archipelago.
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Mandarin Oriental, Bangkok
Mandarin Oriental, Bangkok is a five-star hotel in Bangkok owned in part and managed by Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group.
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Manuscript
A manuscript (abbreviated MS for singular and MSS for plural) was, traditionally, any document written by hand or typewritten, as opposed to mechanically printed or reproduced in some indirect or automated way.
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Marc Allégret
Marc Allégret (22 December 1900 – 3 November 1973) was a French screenwriter, photographer and film director.
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Marguerite Poradowska
Marguerite Gachet de la Fournière (12 March 1848, in Ixelles – 1937, in Nièvre) was a Belgian writer, who wrote under the pseudonym Marguerite Poradowska.
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Maria Carta
Maria Carta (24 June 1934 – 22 September 1994) was a Sardinian folk music singer-songwriter.
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Maria Curie-Skłodowska University
Maria Curie-Skłodowska University (MCSU) (Uniwersytet Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej w Lublinie, UMCS) is a public research university, in Lublin, Poland.
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Maria Dąbrowska
Maria Dąbrowska (born Maria Szumska; 6 October 1889 – 19 May 1965) was a Polish writer, novelist, essayist, journalist and playwright, author of the popular Polish historical novel Noce i dnie (Nights and Days) written between 1932 and 1934 in four separate volumes. Joseph Conrad and Maria Dąbrowska are 20th-century Polish nobility and 20th-century Polish novelists.
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Marie Curie
Maria Salomea Skłodowska-Curie (7 November 1867 – 4 July 1934), known simply as Marie Curie, was a Polish and naturalised-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity.
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Mario Pei
Mario Andrew Pei (February 16, 1901March 2, 1978) was an Italian-born American linguist and polyglot who wrote a number of popular books known for their accessibility to readers without a professional background in linguistics.
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Maritime Southeast Asia
Maritime Southeast Asia comprises the countries of Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, and East Timor.
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Mark Twain
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, and essayist.
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Marseille
Marseille or Marseilles (Marseille; Marselha; see below) is the prefecture of the French department of Bouches-du-Rhône and of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region.
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Martial Bourdin
Martial Bourdin (1868 – 15 February 1894) was a French anarchist, who died on 15 February 1894 when chemical explosives that he was carrying prematurely detonated outside the Royal Observatory in Greenwich Park, London.
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Martinique
Martinique (Matinik or Matnik; Kalinago: Madinina or Madiana) is an island in the Lesser Antilles of the West Indies, in the eastern Caribbean Sea.
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Masood Ashraf Raja
Masood Ashraf Raja (Urdu: مسعود اشرف راجہ) is a Pakistani-born American writer.
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Matadi
Matadi is the chief sea port of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the capital of the Kongo Central province, adjacent to the border with Angola.
Maurice Ravel
Joseph Maurice Ravel (7 March 1875 – 28 December 1937) was a French composer, pianist and conductor.
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Maurice Tourneur
Maurice Félix Thomas (2 February 1876 – 4 August 1961), known as Maurice Tourneur, was a French film director and screenwriter.
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Mauritius
Mauritius, officially the Republic of Mauritius, is an island nation in the Indian Ocean, about off the southeastern coast of East Africa, east of Madagascar.
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Maya Jasanoff
Maya R. Jasanoff (born 1974) is an American academic who serves as Coolidge Professor of History at Harvard University, where she focuses on the history of Britain and the British Empire.
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Merchant navy
A merchant navy or merchant marine is the fleet of merchant vessels that are registered in a specific country.
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Michael Gorra
Michael Gorra (born 17 February 1957) is an American professor of English and literature, currently serving as the Mary Augusta Jordan Professor of English Language and Literature at Smith College, where he has taught since 1985.
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Monte Carlo
Monte Carlo (Monte-Carlo,; or colloquially Monte-Carl,; Munte Carlu) is an official administrative area of Monaco, specifically the ward of Monte Carlo/Spélugues, where the Monte Carlo Casino is located.
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Mr.
Mister, usually written in its contracted form Mr. or Mr, is a commonly used English honorific for men without a higher honorific, or professional title, or any of various designations of office.
Multilingualism
Multilingualism is the use of more than one language, either by an individual speaker or by a group of speakers.
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Nałęcz coat of arms
Nałęcz is a Polish coat of arms.
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Napoleon
Napoleon Bonaparte (born Napoleone di Buonaparte; 15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821), later known by his regnal name Napoleon I, was a French military and political leader who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led a series of successful campaigns across Europe during the Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars from 1796 to 1815.
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Neo-romanticism
The term neo-romanticism is used to cover a variety of movements in philosophy, literature, music, painting, and architecture, as well as social movements, that exist after and incorporate elements from the era of Romanticism.
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New South Wales
New South Wales (commonly abbreviated as NSW) is a state on the east coast of:Australia.
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New York Herald
The New York Herald was a large-distribution newspaper based in New York City that existed between 1835 and 1924.
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Nicolas Roeg
Nicolas Jack Roeg (15 August 1928 – 23 November 2018) was an English film director and cinematographer, best known for directing Performance (1970), Walkabout (1971), Don't Look Now (1973), The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976), Bad Timing (1980) and The Witches (1990).
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Nobel Prize in Literature
The Nobel Prize in Literature (here meaning for literature; Nobelpriset i litteratur) is a Swedish literature prize that is awarded annually, since 1901, to an author from any country who has, in the words of the will of Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, "in the field of literature, produced the most outstanding work in an idealistic direction" (original den som inom litteraturen har producerat det utmärktaste i idealisk riktning).
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Norman Douglas
George Norman Douglas (8 December 1868 – 7 February 1952) was a British writer, now best known for his 1917 novel South Wind. Joseph Conrad and Norman Douglas are British travel writers.
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North American Review
The North American Review (NAR) was the first literary magazine in the United States.
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Nostromo
Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard is a 1904 novel by Joseph Conrad, set in the fictitious South American republic of "Costaguana".
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Nostromo (TV series)
Nostromo is a 1997 British-Italian television drama series directed by Alastair Reid and produced by Fernando Ghia of Pixit Productions, a co-production with Radiotelevisione Italiana, Televisión Española, and WGBH Boston.
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Novel
A novel is an extended work of narrative fiction usually written in prose and published as a book.
November Uprising
The November Uprising (1830–31), also known as the Polish–Russian War 1830–31 or the Cadet Revolution, was an armed rebellion in the heartland of partitioned Poland against the Russian Empire.
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Oligarchy
Oligarchy is a conceptual form of power structure in which power rests with a small number of people.
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Olivier Weber
Olivier Weber (born 1958) is a French writer, novelist and reporter at large, known primarily for his coverage of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Online Books Page
The Online Books Page is an index of e-text books available on the Internet.
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Orativ
Orativ (Оратів, Oratów) is a rural settlement in Vinnytsia Oblast, located in the historic region of Podillia, Ukraine.
Orlestone
Orlestone is a mid-sized civil parish in Ashford District, Kent, England, with a population of 1,407.
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Pablo Picasso
Pablo Ruiz Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France.
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Pan Tadeusz
Pan Tadeusz (full title: Sir Thaddeus, or the Last Foray in Lithuania: A Nobility's Tale of the Years 1811–1812, in Twelve Books of Verse) is an epic poem by the Polish poet, writer, translator and philosopher Adam Mickiewicz.
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Pan-Slavism
Pan-Slavism, a movement that took shape in the mid-19th century, is the political ideology concerned with promoting integrity and unity for the Slavic people.
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Panama Canal
The Panama Canal (Canal de Panamá) is an artificial waterway in Panama that connects the Atlantic Ocean with the Pacific Ocean, cutting across the Isthmus of Panama, and is a conduit for maritime trade.
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Partitions of Poland
The Partitions of Poland were three partitions of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth that took place toward the end of the 18th century and ended the existence of the state, resulting in the elimination of sovereign Poland and Lithuania for 123 years.
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Pascal Greggory
Pascal Greggory (born 8 September 1954) is a French actor.
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Patrice Chéreau
Patrice Chéreau (2 November 1944 – 7 October 2013) was a French opera and theatre director, filmmaker, actor and producer.
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Patricia Arquette
Patricia Arquette (born April 8, 1968) is an American actress.
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Paul Gachet
Paul-Ferdinand Gachet (30 July 1828 – 9 January 1909) was a French physician most famous for treating the painter Vincent van Gogh during his last weeks in Auvers-sur-Oise.
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Paul Valéry
Ambroise Paul Toussaint Jules Valéry (30 October 1871 – 20 July 1945) was a French poet, essayist, and philosopher.
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Paweł Strzelecki
Sir Paweł Edmund Strzelecki (By Australian English speakers: pɔːl strʌzlɛki (paul struhzLECKi). 20 July 17976 October 1873), also known as Paul Edmund de Strzelecki and Sir Paul Strzelecki, was a Polish explorer, geologist, humanitarian, environmentalist, nobleman, scientist, businessman and philanthropist who in 1845 also became a British subject. Joseph Conrad and Paweł Strzelecki are 19th-century Polish nobility.
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PBS
The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is an American public broadcaster and non-commercial, free-to-air television network based in Crystal City, Virginia.
Pension (lodging)
A pension is a type of guest house or boarding house.
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Peter Edgerly Firchow
Peter Edgerly Firchow (December 16, 1937 – October 18, 2008) was an American literary scholar and educator.
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Peter Fudakowski
Peter Jan Fudakowski (born 2 September 1954) is a London-based film producer, writer and director. Joseph Conrad and Peter Fudakowski are British people of Polish descent.
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Peter Matthiessen
Peter Matthiessen (May 22, 1927 – April 5, 2014) was an American novelist, naturalist, wilderness writer, zen teacher and onetime CIA agent.
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Peter O'Toole
Peter Seamus O'Toole (2 August 1932 – 14 December 2013) was an English stage and film actor.
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Philip Roth
Philip Milton Roth (March 19, 1933 – May 22, 2018) was an American novelist and short-story writer.
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Phonemic orthography
A phonemic orthography is an orthography (system for writing a language) in which the graphemes (written symbols) correspond consistently to the language's phonemes (the smallest units of speech that can differentiate words).
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Phrase
In grammar, a phrasecalled expression in some contextsis a group of words or singular word acting as a grammatical unit.
Phraseology
In linguistics, phraseology is the study of set or fixed expressions, such as idioms, phrasal verbs, and other types of multi-word lexical units (often collectively referred to as phrasemes), in which the component parts of the expression take on a meaning more specific than, or otherwise not predictable from, the sum of their meanings when used independently.
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Pictorial Review
The Pictorial Review was an American women's magazine published from 1899 to 1939.
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Plagiarism
Plagiarism is the representation of another person's language, thoughts, ideas, or expressions as one's own original work.
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Playhouse 90
Playhouse 90 is an American television anthology drama series that aired on CBS from 1956 to 1960 for a total of 133 episodes.
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Poglish
Poglish, also known as Polglish and Ponglish (Polish: polglisz, język polgielski; German: Ponglisch), is a blend of two words from Polish and English.
Poland
Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe.
Poles in the United Kingdom
British Poles, alternatively known as Polish British people or Polish Britons, are ethnic Poles who are citizens of the United Kingdom. Joseph Conrad and Poles in the United Kingdom are British people of Polish descent.
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Polish Academy of Sciences
The Polish Academy of Sciences (Polska Akademia Nauk, PAN) is a Polish state-sponsored institution of higher learning.
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Polish Biographical Dictionary
Polski Słownik Biograficzny (PSB; Polish Biographical Dictionary) is a Polish-language biographical dictionary, comprising an alphabetically arranged compilation of authoritative biographies of some 25,000 notable Poles and of foreigners who have been active in Poland – famous as well as less-well-known persons – from Popiel, Piast Kołodziej, and Mieszko I, at the dawn of Polish history, to persons who died in the year 2000.
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Polish people
Polish people, or Poles, are a West Slavic ethnic group and nation who share a common history, culture, the Polish language and are identified with the country of Poland in Central Europe.
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Polish People's Republic
The Polish People's Republic (1952–1989), formerly the Republic of Poland (1947–1952), was a country in Central Europe that existed as the predecessor of the modern-day democratic Republic of Poland.
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Polish question
The Polish question (kwestia polska or sprawa polska) was the issue, in international politics, of the existence of Poland as an independent state.
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Polish underground press
Polish underground press, devoted to prohibited materials (sl. bibuła, lit. semitransparent blotting paper or, alternatively, drugi obieg, lit. second circulation), has a long history of combatting censorship of oppressive regimes in Poland.
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Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
Poland–Lithuania, formally known as the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and also referred to as the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth or the First Polish Republic, was a bi-confederal state, sometimes called a federation, of Poland and Lithuania ruled by a common monarch in real union, who was both King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania.
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Politics of the Netherlands
The Netherlands is a parliamentary representative democracy.
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Postcolonial literature
Postcolonial literature is the literature by people from formerly colonized countries, originating from all continents except Antarctica.
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Prose poetry
Prose poetry is poetry written in prose form instead of verse form while otherwise deferring to poetic devices to make meaning.
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Prussia
Prussia (Preußen; Old Prussian: Prūsa or Prūsija) was a German state located on most of the North European Plain, also occupying southern and eastern regions.
Psyche (psychology)
In psychology, the psyche is the totality of the human mind, conscious and unconscious.
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Puberty
Puberty is the process of physical changes through which a child's body matures into an adult body capable of sexual reproduction.
Public relations
Public relations (PR) is the practice of managing and disseminating information from an individual or an organization (such as a business, government agency, or a nonprofit organization) to the public in order to influence their perception.
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Pula (journal)
Pula: Botswana Journal of African Studies, established in 1978, is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering studies on Africa, especially Southern Africa.
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Queen Victoria
Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death in 1901.
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Racism
Racism is discrimination and prejudice against people based on their race or ethnicity.
Raffles Hotel
Raffles Singapore is a historic luxury hotel at 1 Beach Road, in Singapore.
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Ramsay MacDonald
James Ramsay MacDonald (12 October 18669 November 1937) was a British statesman and politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, the first who belonged to the Labour Party, leading minority Labour governments for nine months in 1924 and again between 1929 and 1931.
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Rashomon
is a 1950 jidaigeki drama film directed and co-written by Akira Kurosawa.
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Rationalism
In philosophy, rationalism is the epistemological view that "regards reason as the chief source and test of knowledge" or "any view appealing to reason as a source of knowledge or justification",Lacey, A.R. (1996), A Dictionary of Philosophy, 1st edition, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1976.
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Red Ensign
The Red Ensign or "Red Duster" is the civil ensign of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
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Renaissance
The Renaissance is a period of history and a European cultural movement covering the 15th and 16th centuries.
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Richard Brooks
Richard Brooks (May 18, 1912 – March 11, 1992) was an American screenwriter, film director, novelist and film producer.
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Richard Curle
Richard Curle (1883–1968) was a Scottish author, critic, and journalist.
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Richard Rorty
Richard McKay Rorty (October 4, 1931 – June 8, 2007) was an American philosopher.
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Ridley Scott
Sir Ridley Scott (born 30 November 1937) is an English filmmaker.
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RMS Empress of Ireland
RMS Empress of Ireland was a British-built ocean liner that sank near the mouth of the Saint Lawrence River in Canada following a collision in thick fog with the Norwegian collier in the early hours of 29 May 1914.
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Robert Gavin Hampson
Robert Gavin Hampson FEA FRSA (born 1948) is a British poet and academic.
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Roddy McDowall
Roderick Andrew Anthony Jude McDowall (17 September 1928 – 3 October 1998) was a British and American actor, whose career spanned over 270 screen and stage roles across over 60 years.
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Roger Casement
Roger David Casement (Ruairí Dáithí Mac Easmainn; 1 September 1864 – 3 August 1916), known as Sir Roger Casement, CMG, between 1911 and 1916, was a diplomat and Irish nationalist executed by the United Kingdom for treason during World War I. He worked for the British Foreign Office as a diplomat, becoming known as a humanitarian activist, and later as a poet and Easter Rising leader.
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Roman numerals
Roman numerals are a numeral system that originated in ancient Rome and remained the usual way of writing numbers throughout Europe well into the Late Middle Ages.
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Roman Sanguszko
Prince Roman Adam Stanisław Sanguszko (1800–1881) was a Polish aristocrat, patriot, political and social activist.
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Romance (novel)
Romance is a novel written by Joseph Conrad and Ford Madox Ford.
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Romanticism in Poland
Romanticism in Poland, a literary, artistic and intellectual period in the evolution of Polish culture, began around 1820, coinciding with the publication of Adam Mickiewicz's first poems in 1822.
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Royal Navy
The Royal Navy (RN) is the naval warfare force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies, and a component of His Majesty's Naval Service.
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Royal Observatory, Greenwich
The Royal Observatory, Greenwich (ROG; known as the Old Royal Observatory from 1957 to 1998, when the working Royal Greenwich Observatory, RGO, temporarily moved south from Greenwich to Herstmonceux) is an observatory situated on a hill in Greenwich Park in south east London, overlooking the River Thames to the north.
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Rudyard Kipling
Joseph Rudyard Kipling (30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936)The Times, (London) 18 January 1936, p. 12. Joseph Conrad and Rudyard Kipling are 19th-century British novelists, 19th-century British short story writers, maritime writers, people of the Victorian era and Victorian novelists.
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Russian Empire
The Russian Empire was a vast empire that spanned most of northern Eurasia from its proclamation in November 1721 until its dissolution in March 1917.
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Russo-Japanese War
The Russo-Japanese War was fought between the Japanese Empire and the Russian Empire during 1904 and 1905 over rival imperial ambitions in Manchuria and the Korean Empire.
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Sabotage (1936 film)
Sabotage, released in the United States as The Woman Alone, is a 1936 British espionage thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock starring Sylvia Sidney, Oskar Homolka, and John Loder.
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Saint Petersburg State University
Saint Petersburg State University (SPBU; Санкт-Петербургский государственный университет) is a public research university in Saint Petersburg, Russia, and one of the oldest and most prestigious universities in Russia.
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Saint-John Perse
Alexis Leger (31 May 1887 – 20 September 1975), better known by his pseudonym Saint-John Perse (also Saint-Leger Leger), was a French poet, writer and diplomat, awarded the 1960 Nobel Prize in Literature "for the soaring flight and the evocative imagery of his poetry which in a visionary fashion reflects the conditions of our time".
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Salman Rushdie
Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie (born 19 June 1947) is an Indian-born British-American novelist. Joseph Conrad and Salman Rushdie are naturalised citizens of the United Kingdom.
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Sarawak
Sarawak is a state of Malaysia.
Saul Bellow
Saul Bellow (born Solomon Bellows; June 10, 1915April 5, 2005) was an American writer.
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Second Partition of Poland
The 1793 Second Partition of Poland was the second of three partitions (or partial annexations) that ended the existence of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth by 1795.
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Self-translation
Self-translation is a translation of a source text into a target text by the writer of the source text.
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Sense of place
The term sense of place has been used in many different ways.
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Sentence (linguistics)
In linguistics and grammar, a sentence is a linguistic expression, such as the English example "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." In traditional grammar, it is typically defined as a string of words that expresses a complete thought, or as a unit consisting of a subject and predicate.
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Serbia
Serbia, officially the Republic of Serbia, is a landlocked country at the crossroads of Southeast and Central Europe, located in the Balkans and the Pannonian Plain.
Short story
A short story is a piece of prose fiction.
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Simile
A simile is a figure of speech that directly compares two things.
Social democracy
Social democracy is a political, social, and economic philosophy within socialism that supports political and economic democracy and supports a gradualist, reformist and democratic approach towards achieving socialism.
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Société anonyme belge pour le commerce du Haut-Congo
The Société anonyme belge pour le commerce du Haut-Congo (SAB) was a private enterprise in the Congo Free State, later the Belgian Congo, that operated a string of trading stations in the Congo River basin, and exported ivory, rubber and other local products.
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Spec Ops: The Line
Spec Ops: The Line is a 2012 third-person shooter video game developed by Yager Development and published by 2K.
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Stefan Żeromski
Stefan Żeromski (14 October 1864 – 20 November 1925) was a Polish novelist and dramatist belonging to the Young Poland movement at the turn of the 20th century. Joseph Conrad and Stefan Żeromski are 19th-century Polish novelists, 20th-century Polish novelists, Polish male novelists and Polish male short story writers.
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Stefan Bobrowski
Stefan Bobrowski (17 January 1840Sometimes given as 1841. – 12 April 1863) was a Polish politician and activist for Polish independence. Joseph Conrad and Stefan Bobrowski are people from Berdichevsky Uyezd and people from the Russian Empire of Polish descent.
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Stephen Crane
Stephen Crane (November 1, 1871 – June 5, 1900) was an American poet, novelist, and short story writer.
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Stuart Berg Flexner
Stuart Berg Flexner (1928–1990) was a lexicographer, editor and author, noted for his books on the origins of American words and expressions, including I Hear America Talking and Listening to America; as co-editor of the Dictionary of American Slang and as chief editor of the Random House Dictionary, Second Edition.
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Subjectivity and objectivity (philosophy)
The distinction between subjectivity and objectivity is a basic idea of philosophy, particularly epistemology and metaphysics.
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Swept from the Sea
Swept from the Sea (known as Amy Foster in the UK) is a 1997 drama film directed by Beeban Kidron and starring Vincent Perez, Rachel Weisz, and Ian McKellen.
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Sydney
Sydney is the capital city of the state of New South Wales and the most populous city in Australia.
Syntax
In linguistics, syntax is the study of how words and morphemes combine to form larger units such as phrases and sentences.
Szlachta
The szlachta (Polish:; Lithuanian: šlėkta) were the noble estate of the realm in the Kingdom of Poland, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and, as a social class, dominated those states by exercising political rights and power.
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T. E. Lawrence
Thomas Edward Lawrence (16 August 1888 – 19 May 1935) was a British archaeologist, army officer, diplomat, and writer who became renowned for his role in the Arab Revolt (1916–1918) and the Sinai and Palestine Campaign (1915–1918) against the Ottoman Empire during the First World War.
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T. P. O'Connor
Thomas Power O'Connor, PC (5 October 1848 – 18 November 1929), known as T. P. O'Connor and occasionally as Tay Pay (mimicking his own pronunciation of the initials T. P.), was an Irish nationalist politician and journalist who served as a Member of Parliament (MP) in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland for nearly fifty years.
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T. S. Eliot
Thomas Stearns Eliot (26 September 18884 January 1965) was a poet, essayist and playwright. Joseph Conrad and T. S. Eliot are naturalised citizens of the United Kingdom.
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Tadeusz Bobrowski
Tadeusz Bobrowski (1829–1894) was a Polish landowner living in Ukraine, best known outside Poland as the guardian and mentor of his nephew Józef Konrad Korzeniowski, who would later become the well-known English-language novelist Joseph Conrad.
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Tarik O'Regan
Tarik Hamilton O'Regan (born 1 January 1978) is a British and American composer.
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Terence Young (director)
Stewart Terence Herbert Young (20 June 1915 – 7 September 1994) was a British film director and screenwriter who worked in the United Kingdom, Europe and Hollywood.
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Terry Eagleton
Terence Francis Eagleton (born 22 February 1943) is an English philosopher, literary theorist, critic, and public intellectual.
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Textual criticism
Textual criticism is a branch of textual scholarship, philology, and literary criticism that is concerned with the identification of textual variants, or different versions, of either manuscripts (mss) or of printed books.
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The Arrow of Gold
The Arrow of Gold is a novel by Joseph Conrad, published in 1919.
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The Black Mate
“The Black Mate” is a work of short fiction by Joseph Conrad which first appeared in London Magazine in 1908, and was collected in Tales of Hearsay, published by T. Fisher Unwin in 1925.
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The Cornhill Magazine
The Cornhill Magazine (1860–1975) was a monthly Victorian magazine and literary journal named after the street address of the founding publisher Smith, Elder & Co. at 65 Cornhill in London.
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The Duel (short story)
"The Duel" is a work of short fiction by Joseph Conrad, first published in The Pall Mall Magazine in January–May, 1908.
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The Duellists
The Duellists is a 1977 British historical drama film directed by Ridley Scott and produced by David Puttnam.
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The English Review
The English Review was an English-language literary magazine published in London from 1908 to 1937.
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The Faerie Queene
The Faerie Queene is an English epic poem by Edmund Spenser.
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The Forsyte Saga
The Forsyte Saga, first published under that title in 1922, is a series of three novels and two interludes published between 1906 and 1921 by the English author John Galsworthy, who won the 1932 Nobel Prize in Literature.
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The Fortnightly Review
The Fortnightly Review was one of the most prominent and influential magazines in nineteenth-century England.
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The Fullerton Hotel Singapore
The Fullerton Hotel Singapore is a five-star luxury hotel located near the mouth of the Singapore River, in the Downtown Core of the Central Area, Singapore.
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The Hollow Men
"The Hollow Men" (1925) is a poem by the modernist writer T. S. Eliot.
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The Idiots (short story)
"The Idiots" is a short story by Joseph Conrad, his first to be published.
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The Illustrated London News
The Illustrated London News, founded by Herbert Ingram and first published on Saturday 14 May 1842, was the world's first illustrated weekly news magazine.
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The Inheritors (Conrad and Ford novel)
The Inheritors: An Extravagant Story (1901) is a quasi-science fiction novel on which Joseph Conrad and Ford Madox Ford (writing as Ford M. Heuffer) collaborated.
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The Inn of the Two Witches
"The Inn of the Two Witches" is a work of short fiction by Joseph Conrad, first published in The Pall Mall Magazine in March 1913.
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The Lagoon
"The Lagoon" is a short story by Joseph Conrad composed in 1896 and first published in The Cornhill Magazine in January 1897.
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The Malay Archipelago
The Malay Archipelago is a book by the British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace which chronicles his scientific exploration, during the eight-year period 1854 to 1862, of the southern portion of the Malay Archipelago including Malaysia, Singapore, the islands of Indonesia, then known as the Dutch East Indies, and the island of New Guinea.
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The Metropolitan Magazine
The Metropolitan: A monthly journal of literature, science, and the fine arts was a London monthly journal inaugurated in May 1831, originally edited by Thomas Campbell.
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The Nature of a Crime
The Nature of a Crime is a collaborative novel written and published in 1909 by authors Joseph Conrad and Ford Madox Ford.
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The New York Review of Books
The New York Review of Books (or NYREV or NYRB) is a semi-monthly magazine with articles on literature, culture, economics, science and current affairs.
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The New Yorker
The New Yorker is an American magazine featuring journalism, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry.
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The Nigger of the "Narcissus"
The Nigger of the "Narcissus": A Tale of the Forecastle (sometimes subtitled A Tale of the Sea), first published in the United States as The Children of the Sea, is an 1897 novella by Polish-British novelist Joseph Conrad.
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The Outlook (British magazine)
The Outlook (sometimes just Outlook) was a British weekly periodical, sometimes described as a "review" and sometimes as a "political magazine".
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The Pall Mall Magazine
The Pall Mall Magazine was a monthly British literary magazine published between 1893 and 1914.
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The Paris Review
The Paris Review is a quarterly English-language literary magazine established in Paris in 1953 by Harold L. Humes, Peter Matthiessen, and George Plimpton.
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The Peninsula Hong Kong
The Peninsula Hong Kong is a colonial-style luxury hotel located in Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
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The Polish Review
The Polish Review is an English-language academic journal published quarterly in New York City by the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America.
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The Rescue (Conrad novel)
The Rescue, A Romance of the Shallows (1920) is one of Joseph Conrad's works contained in what is now sometimes called the Lingard Trilogy, a group of novels based on Conrad's experience as mate on the steamer Vidar.
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The Return (Conrad short story)
"The Return" is a work of short fiction by Joseph Conrad, first published in 1898 in the collection Tales of Unrest by T. Fisher Unwin.
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The Rover (1967 film)
L'avventuriero (internationally released as The Rover) is a 1967 Italian war-drama film directed by Terence Young and starring Anthony Quinn.
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The Rover (novel)
The Rover is the last complete novel by Joseph Conrad, written between 1921 and 1922.
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The Saturday Evening Post
The Saturday Evening Post is an American magazine, currently published six times a year.
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The Savoy (periodical)
The Savoy was a magazine of literature, art, and criticism published in eight numbers from January to December 1896 in London.
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The Seattle Times
The Seattle Times is an American daily newspaper based in Seattle, Washington.
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The Secret Agent
The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale is an anarchist spy fiction novel by Joseph Conrad, first published in 1907.
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The Secret Agent (1992 TV series)
The Secret Agent is a 1992 drama miniseries in three parts, made for the BBC.
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The Secret Agent (1996 film)
The Secret Agent is a 1996 British drama-thriller film written and directed by Christopher Hampton and starring Bob Hoskins and Patricia Arquette.
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The Secret Agent (2016 TV series)
The Secret Agent is a three-part British espionage television drama serial based on the 1907 novel The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad.
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The Secret Sharer
"The Secret Sharer" is a short story by Polish-British author Joseph Conrad, originally written in 1909 and first published in two parts in the August and September 1910 editions of Harper's Magazine.
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The Shadow Line (novel)
The Shadow-Line is a short novel based at sea by Joseph Conrad; it is one of his later works, being written from February to December 1915.
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The Spoils of Poynton
The Spoils of Poynton is a novel by Henry James, first published under the title The Old Things as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly in 1896 and then as a book in 1897.
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The Strand Magazine
The Strand Magazine was a monthly British magazine founded by George Newnes, composed of short fiction and general interest articles.
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The Tale (short story)
“The Tale” is a work of short fiction by Joseph Conrad, first published in the Strand Magazine in October 1917.
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The Times
The Times is a British daily national newspaper based in London.
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The Young One (2016 film)
The Young One (original title: Jeunesse) is a 2016 French-Portuguese film directed by Julien Samani and produced by Paulo Branco.
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Third Partition of Poland
The Third Partition of Poland (1795) was the last in a series of the Partitions of Poland–Lithuania and the land of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth among Prussia, the Habsburg monarchy, and the Russian Empire which effectively ended Polish–Lithuanian national sovereignty until 1918.
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Thomas Pynchon
Thomas Ruggles Pynchon Jr. (born May 8, 1937) is an American novelist noted for his dense and complex novels.
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Tim Roth
Timothy Simon Roth (born 14 May 1961) is an English actor and producer.
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TNT (American TV network)
TNT (originally an abbreviation for Turner Network Television) is an American basic cable television channel owned by the Warner Bros. Discovery Networks unit of Warner Bros. Discovery that launched on October 3, 1988.
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Toilers of the Sea
Toilers of the Sea (Les Travailleurs de la mer) is a novel by Victor Hugo published in 1866.
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Tom Phillips (artist)
Trevor Thomas Phillips (25 May 1937 – 28 November 2022) was an English visual artist.
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Torrens (clipper ship)
Torrens was a three-masted clipper ship that was built in England in 1875 and scrapped in Italy in 1910.
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Trevor Howard
Trevor Wallace Howard-Smith (29 September 1913 – 7 January 1988) was an English stage, film, and television actor.
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Tuberculosis
Tuberculosis (TB), also known colloquially as the "white death", or historically as consumption, is an infectious disease usually caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) bacteria.
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Typhoon (novella)
Typhoon is a short novel by Joseph Conrad, begun in 1899 and serialized in Pall Mall Magazine in January–March 1902.
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Ukraine
Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe.
Under Western Eyes (1936 film)
Under Western Eyes (French: Razumov: Sous les yeux d'occident) is a 1936 French drama film directed by Marc Allégret and starring Pierre Fresnay, Danièle Parola and Michel Simon.
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Under Western Eyes (novel)
Under Western Eyes (1911) is a novel by Joseph Conrad.
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United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was a sovereign state in Northwestern Europe that was established by the union in 1801 of the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland.
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Universe
The universe is all of space and time and their contents.
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University of Cambridge
The University of Cambridge is a public collegiate research university in Cambridge, England.
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V. S. Naipaul
Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul (17 August 1932 – 11 August 2018) was a Trinidadian-born British writer of works of fiction and nonfiction in English. Joseph Conrad and V. S. Naipaul are British travel writers.
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Valery Larbaud
Valery Larbaud (29 August 1881 – 2 February 1957) was a French writer and poet.
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Victor Fleming
Victor Lonzo Fleming (February 23, 1889 – January 6, 1949) was an American film director, cinematographer, and producer.
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Victor Hugo
Victor-Marie Hugo, vicomte Hugo (26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885), sometimes nicknamed the Ocean Man, was a French Romantic writer and politician. Joseph Conrad and Victor Hugo are maritime writers.
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Victory (1919 film)
Victory is a surviving 1919 American action film directed by Maurice Tourneur and starring Jack Holt, Seena Owen, Lon Chaney, Wallace Beery and Bull Montana.
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Victory (1940 film)
Victory is a 1940 American adventure film directed by John Cromwell and starring Fredric March, Cedric Hardwicke and Betty Field.
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Victory (1996 film)
Victory is a 1996 French-German drama suspense film written and directed by Mark Peploe and starring Willem Dafoe, Irène Jacob, Sam Neill and Rufus Sewell.
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Victory (novel)
Victory (also published as Victory: An Island Tale) is a psychological novel by Joseph Conrad first published in 1915, through which Conrad achieved "popular success." The novel's "most striking formal characteristic is its shifting narrative and temporal perspective" with the first section from the viewpoint of a sailor, the second from omniscient perspective of Axel Heyst, the third from an interior perspective from Heyst, and the final section has an omniscient narrator.
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Vincent van Gogh
Vincent Willem van Gogh (30 March 185329 July 1890) was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of Western art.
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Visual arts
The visual arts are art forms such as painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics, photography, video, filmmaking, comics, design, crafts, and architecture.
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Vologda
Vologda (Во́логда) is a city and the administrative center of Vologda Oblast, Russia, located on the river Vologda within the watershed of the Northern Dvina.
Vyacheslav von Plehve
Vyacheslav Konstantinovich von Plehve (p; &ndash) was a Russian politician who served as the director of the police from 1881 to 1884 and later as the minister of the interior from 1902 until his assassination in 1904.
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W. Somerset Maugham
William Somerset Maugham (25 January 1874 – 16 December 1965) was an English writer, known for his plays, novels and short stories. Joseph Conrad and w. Somerset Maugham are 19th-century British novelists, 19th-century British short story writers and Victorian novelists.
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Warsaw
Warsaw, officially the Capital City of Warsaw, is the capital and largest city of Poland.
Warsaw Citadel
Warsaw Citadel (Polish: Cytadela Warszawska) is a 19th-century fortress in Warsaw, Poland.
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WGBH-TV
WGBH-TV (channel 2), branded GBH or GBH 2 since 2020, is the primary PBS member television station in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.
What Maisie Knew
What Maisie Knew is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in The Chap-Book and (revised and abridged) in the New Review in 1897 and then as a book later that year.
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White Rajahs
The White Rajahs were a hereditary monarchy of the Brooke family, who founded and ruled the Raj of Sarawak as a sovereign state, located on the north west coast of the island of Borneo in maritime Southeast Asia, from 1841 to 1946.
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William A. Wellman
William Augustus Wellman (February 29, 1896 – December 9, 1975) was an American film director, producer, screenwriter, actor and military pilot.
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William Faulkner
William Cuthbert Faulkner (September 25, 1897 – July 6, 1962) was an American writer known for his novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, based on Lafayette County, Mississippi, where Faulkner spent most of his life. Joseph Conrad and William Faulkner are modernist writers.
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William Golding
Sir William Gerald Golding (19 September 1911 – 19 June 1993) was a British novelist, playwright, and poet.
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William S. Burroughs
William Seward Burroughs II (February 5, 1914 – August 2, 1997) was an American writer and visual artist.
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William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare (23 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet and actor.
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Wincenty Lutosławski
Wincenty Lutosławski (6 June 1863 – 28 December 1954) was a Polish philosopher, author, and member of the Polish National League.
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Word
A word is a basic element of language that carries meaning, can be used on its own, and is uninterruptible.
World War I
World War I (alternatively the First World War or the Great War) (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers.
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Worldview
A worldview or a world-view or Weltanschauung is the fundamental cognitive orientation of an individual or society encompassing the whole of the individual's or society's knowledge, culture, and point of view.
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Wrocław
Wrocław (Breslau; also known by other names) is a city in southwestern Poland and the largest city in the historical region of Silesia.
Youth (Conrad short story)
"Youth" is an autobiographical work of short fiction by Joseph Conrad first published in Blackwood’s Magazine in 1898 and collected in the eponymous collection Youth, A Narrative; and Two Other Stories in 1902.
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Zakopane
Zakopane (Podhale Goral: Zokopane) is a town in the south of Poland, in the southern part of the Podhale region at the foot of the Tatra Mountains.
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Zdzisław Najder
Zdzisław Najder (31 October 1930 – 15 February 2021) was a Polish literary historian, critic, and political activist.
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Zhytomyr
Zhytomyr (Житомир; see below for other names) is a city in the north of the western half of Ukraine.
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Zygmunt Szweykowski
Zygmunt Szweykowski (7 April 1894 in Krośniewice – 11 February 1978 in Poznań) was a historian of Polish literature who specialized in 19th-century Polish prose.
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See also
19th-century Polish novelists
- Alexandrine von Hutten-Czapska
- Anna Olimpia Mostowska
- Anna Zahorska
- Bolesław Prus
- Cyprian Godebski (poet)
- Edmund Chojecki
- Eliza Orzeszkowa
- Franciszek Ksawery Dmochowski
- Gabriela Zapolska
- Helena Janina Pajzderska
- Henryk Rzewuski
- Henryk Sienkiewicz
- Józef Ignacy Kraszewski
- Jadwiga Łuszczewska
- Jan Lam
- Jan Potocki
- Jan Zachariasiewicz
- Jerzy Żuławski
- Joseph Conrad
- Kajetan Abgarowicz
- Kazimierz Przerwa-Tetmajer
- Kazimierz Zalewski
- Klementyna Hoffmanowa
- Ludwik Sztyrmer
- Maria Ilnicka
- Maria Julia Zaleska
- Maria Konopnicka
- Maria Rodziewiczówna
- Marya Chéliga-Loevy
- Michał Dymitr Krajewski
- Narcyza Żmichowska
- Paulina Wilkońska
- Stanisław Brzozowski (philosopher)
- Stanisław Przybyszewski
- Stefan Żeromski
- Tadeusz Miciński
- Wacław Sieroszewski
- Wanda Malecka
- Władysław Reymont
- Włodzimierz Wolski
- Włodzimierz Zagórski (writer)
British essayists
- Christopher Hitchens
- David Attenborough
- Henry Stephens Salt
- Ian Jack
- Ian Mayes
- James Henry Lawrence
- John Hope (writer)
- Joseph Conrad
- Logan Pearsall Smith
- Martin Amis
- Mary Jeune, Baroness St Helier
- Matthew James Higgins
- Mikita Brottman
- Peter Burra
- Rebecca West
- Richard Wollheim
- Sarah Ladipo Manyika
- Vernon Lee
- William Mudford
British psychological fiction writers
- Carol Topolski
- Conn Iggulden
- D. H. Lawrence
- George Eliot
- Graham Masterton
- H. G. Wells
- Harold Pinter
- Iain Banks
- J. G. Ballard
- Jan Mark
- Joseph Conrad
- Kim Newman
- Marcus Clarke
- Neil Cross
- Nicci French
- Robert Westall
- Tom Rob Smith
- Wilkie Collins
Clan of Nałęcz
- Adam Sędziwój Czarnkowski
- Apollo Korzeniowski
- Fryderyk Józef Moszyński
- Józef Karol Konrad Chełmicki
- Józef Sylwester Sosnowski
- Joseph Conrad
- Kazimierz Franciszek Czarnkowski
- Małachowski (Nałęcz)
- Ostroróg family
- Piotr Parczewski
- Rostworowski (Nałęcz)
- Sergey Shubinsky
- Stanisław Wojciechowski
PEN International
- Alberto Moravia
- Aleksandra Ziółkowska-Boehm
- Arthur Miller
- Burhan Sönmez
- Catherine Amy Dawson Scott
- Constance D'Arcy Mackay
- Elizabeth Craig (writer)
- Gabriele Tergit
- George Bernard Shaw
- Harold Pinter
- Heinrich Böll
- Homero Aridjis
- International PEN centers
- International PEN centres
- Jean Blot
- Jiří Gruša
- Jiří Stránský
- John Ralston Saul
- Joseph Conrad
- Liu Xiaobo
- Montague Burton
- PEN International
- PEN World Voices
- Seiji Tsutsumi
- Server Tanilli
- Taipei Chinese Center
- Taiwan PEN
- Teresa Toda
- Thomas G. Bergin
- Walter Kappacher
People from Berdichevsky Uyezd
- David Petrovsky
- Ewelina Hańska
- Janusz Jędrzejewicz
- Joseph Conrad
- Joseph Hirsh Palitschinetzki
- Khrystofor Baranovsky
- Mikhail Abramovich
- Nisan Bak
- Stefan Bobrowski
- Viktor Bely
- Volodymyr Antonovych
- Wacław Jędrzejewicz
- Władysław Bukowiński
- Yisrael Bak
- Zinovy Feldman
People from Stanford-le-Hope
- Andrew Mathews (Royal Navy officer)
- George Maguire (actor, born 1990)
- Joseph Conrad
- Julie Dartnell
- Lauren Briggs
- Phill Jupitus
- Ron Brett
- Scroobius Pip
- Siraj Ali
People from the Borough of Ashford
- Albertus Morton
- Alfred Austin
- Andrew Forge
- Charlie Peach
- Edward Hyams
- Ernest George Meers
- Frederick Coppins
- James Humphreys (pornographer)
- John Boys (Royalist)
- John Guildford (died 1493)
- John Russell (musician)
- John Swaffer
- Joseph Conrad
- Joseph Woodfall Ebsworth
- Richard Marsh (horseman)
- Sir Edward Dering, 6th Baronet
- Sir George Chute, 1st Baronet
- Thomas Scott (died 1594)
- William Gostling
People from the City of Canterbury
- Derek Minter
- George Gipps (MP for Ripon)
- George Webb (cricketer)
- Henry Kirby
- Henry Oxenden (poet)
- Joseph Conrad
- Kathleen Bridle
- Leonard Digges (scientist)
- Nicholas Haute
- Richard Edwards (Royal Navy officer, died 1795)
- Richard de Clare, 6th Earl of Gloucester
- Sir Edward Hales, 3rd Baronet
- Sir Thomas Thompson, 1st Baronet
- Thomas Hales (c. 1515 – at least 1585)
- William Haute (MP)
- Ymar
Philosophers of pessimism
- Agnes Taubert
- Al-Ma'arri
- Albert Camus
- Albert Caraco
- Alfred de Vigny
- Allen Wheelis
- Arthur Schopenhauer
- Baltasar Gracián
- Camilo Pessanha
- Carlo Michelstaedter
- Charles Baudelaire
- Cormac McCarthy
- David Benatar
- Edgar Saltus
- Eduard von Hartmann
- Emil Cioran
- Eugen Dühring
- Eugene Thacker
- Georges Sorel
- Giacomo Leopardi
- Gottfried Benn
- H. P. Lovecraft
- J. G. Ballard
- James Thomson (poet, born 1834)
- John Gray (philosopher)
- Jorge Luis Borges
- Joseph Conrad
- Julio Cabrera (philosopher)
- Julius Bahnsen
- Karl Jaspers
- Kurnig
- Louis-Ferdinand Céline
- Marian Zdziechowski
- Miguel de Unamuno
- Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen
- Olga Plümacher
- Peter Wessel Zapffe
- Philipp Mainländer
- Ralph Barton Perry
- Sadegh Hedayat
- Samuel Beckett
- Thomas Bernhard
- Thomas Ligotti
- Thomas Mann
- Ulrich Horstmann
- Yang Zhu
Polish male short story writers
- Andrzej Sapkowski
- Bolesław Prus
- Eliezer Isaac Schapira
- Eugeniusz Dębski
- Henryk Sienkiewicz
- Józef Ignacy Kraszewski
- Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz
- Jerzy Andrzejewski
- Joseph Conrad
- Kajetan Abgarowicz
- Karol Irzykowski
- Leszek Engelking
- Marcin Mortka
- Przemysław Borkowski
- Robert J. Szmidt
- Stanisław Lem
- Stefan Grabiński
- Stefan Żeromski
- Tadeusz Borowski
- Tadeusz Miciński
- Władysław Reymont
- Włodzimierz Zagórski (writer)
Polish political writers
- Adam Jerzy Czartoryski
- Adam Pragier
- Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski
- Andrzej Kijowski
- Andrzej Maksymilian Fredro
- Czesław Miłosz
- Dariusz Ratajczak
- Eliza Orzeszkowa
- Feliks Koneczny
- Franciszek Bohomolec
- Franciszek Ksawery Dmochowski
- Franciszek Salezy Jezierski
- Hugo Kołłątaj
- Józef Mackiewicz
- Józef Retinger
- Jan Dymitr Solikowski
- Jan Ludwik Popławski
- Jan Stanisław Jabłonowski
- Jan Wacław Machajski
- Joseph Conrad
- Karol Boromeusz Hoffman
- Kornel Ujejski
- Ludwik Kowalski
- Maria Boniecka
- Paweł Włodkowic
- Piotr Skarga
- Roman Dmowski
- Ryszard Kornacki
- Simon Wiesenthal
- Stanisław Antoni Szczuka
- Stanisław August Poniatowski
- Stanisław Karnkowski
- Stanisław Konarski
- Stanisław Mackiewicz
- Stanisław Orzechowski
- Stanisław Staszic
- Stefania Kossowska
- Szymon Starowolski
- Theodore de Korwin Szymanowski
- Walerian Krasiński
- Wawrzyniec Goślicki
- Wiktor Poliszczuk
- Łukasz Górnicki
Polish travel writers
- Anne Applebaum
- Arkady Fiedler
- Barbara Stettner-Stefańska
- Czesław Centkiewicz
- Elżbieta Dzikowska
- Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski
- Grzegorz Gawlik
- Helena Janina Pajzderska
- Jacek Hugo-Bader
- Jan Andrzej Zakrzewski
- Joseph Conrad
- Kazimierz Nowak
- Kinga Choszcz
- Michalina Isaakowa
- Michał Weinzieher
- Mikołaj Krzysztof "the Orphan" Radziwiłł
- Ryszard Kapuściński
- Ryszard Kotla
- Sergiusz Pinkwart
- Tony Halik
- Wojciech Cejrowski
Polish writers in English
- Bozenna Intrator
- Joseph Conrad
- Krzysztof Gonciarz
- Lisa Appignanesi
- Stefan Themerson
- Wiktor Andrzej Moszczyński
References
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