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Private Worm. Teodor Jozef Konrad Korzeniowski was born 100 years ago in eastern Poland, which then, as now, was under Russian domination. The church was harassed; even the language was under attack. Conrad left Poland at 16. At Marseilles, he became a bit of a heller on a £3OO-a-year allowance from an indulgent uncle. Still in his teens, he ran guns for the Carlist forces in Spain, ran into debt, had an affair with a mysterious femme fatale called Rita. An absurd expatriate from North Carolina named Captain Blunt shot and wounded Conrad in a duel over...
...Josef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski was born in the Ukraine, the son of Polish parents. In his boyhood, he pointed out the Congo on the map and decided that it was the place he wanted to visit...