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“Though he spoke Polish and French from childhood, and was exposed to many English literary classics as a child, he did not begin learning to speak English until he was 21.”
“Conrad would serve 16 years with the British merchant navy, and he would become an expert in the English language, though he would always speak it with an accent.”
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“Which did not, as it turned out, prevent him from becoming one of the most celebrated English writers of his generation.”
“Around 1883, on a voyage to Bombay, he began writing letters in his adopted tongue.”
“In 1895, when he was 37, recently retired from life at sea, he published his first novel , Almayer’s Folly , using his anglicized name, Joseph Conrad .”