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Mirror of the Sea, Paperback by Conrad, Joseph, Brand New, Free shipping in t.... Mirror of the Sea, Paperback by Conrad, Joseph, ISBN 1981546073, ISBN-13 9781981546077, Brand New, Free shipping in the US A collection of autobiographical essays first published in various magazines between 1904 and 1906 (1906)Joseph Conrad born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski; 3 December 1857 – 3 August 1924) was a Polish-British writer regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language. He joined the British merchant marine in 1878, and was granted British citizenship in 1886. Though he did not speak English fluently until his twenties, he was a master prose stylist who brought a non-English sensibility into English literature. He wrote stories and novels, many with a nautical setting, that depict trials of the human spirit in the midst of an impassive, inscrutable universe