Word: polishâ
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Dates: during 1924-1924
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...five years later, in 1889, that he began to write. With the choice of several languages ? French, German, Russian, Polish???he elected to write in English, which he preferred as a medium of expression. It was four years later still before he showed his manuscript to anyone. On a voyage to Australia aboard the Torrens, he had, as passenger, a Cambridge man. Conrad asked him: "Would it bore you very much reading a manuscript in a handwriting like mine...
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