... - instead of his Polish surname for his novels because "it was unpronounceable to English tongues."" (Conrad). Conrad never recovered from his short trip into the Congo and had a lifelong recurring fever. During the years of World War I, Conrad was "too old for military service- and in 1919, he finally settled at Oswalds, Bishopbourne, near Canterbury. (Conrad). By 1923 Conrad was a very ... sick man "crippled by rheumatism, crotchety, nervous, and ill."" (Adler, 134). On August 3, 1924, Joseph Conrad died of a heart attack and was buried at St. Thomas Roman Catholic Church in Canterbury...

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