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Synopsis Conrad is a Polish-born English novelist and short-story writer, a dreamer, adventurer, and gentleman. This book consists of eight well-researched articles x-raying his life events and literary achievements. The main topics, included herein are – Joseph Conrad: An Overview; Testing for Truth: Joseph Conrad and the Ideology of the Examination; The Moral Sense in Joseph Conrad’s ‘Lord Jim’; Contextualizing and Comprehending Joseph Conrad’s “The Return”; Colonizers, Cannibals and the Horron of good Intentions in Joseph Conrad’s ‘Heart of Darkness’; Joseph Conrad’s “Sudden Holes” in time: The Epistemology of Temporality; Politics, Modernity and Domesticity: the Gothicism of Conrad’s the Secret Agent; “Signifying Nothing”: Conrad’s Idiots and the Anxiety of Modernism; etc.