Joseph Conrad was a Polish-British writer regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language. 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. Collected Short Stories I contains two of the Conrad"s most powerful, gripping stories, including Amy Foster - a classic story of a young foreign man who survives a shipwreck off the coast of Kent, England.