Selection of Books by Joseph Conrad the Rover, Tales of Hearsay, Complete Works, The Arrow of Gold, A Set of Six, A Letter to William Nicholson, Joseph Conrad Life and Letters G Jean-Aubry 2 volumes, Conrad and Religion John Lester. Joseph Conrad was a Polish-British novelist and story writer. He is regarded as one of the greatest writers in the English language; though he did not speak English fluently until his twenties, he came to be regarded a master prose stylist who brought a non-English sensibility into English literature (8)