He quickly won critical praise, though financial success eluded him for many years and both he and his wife suffered serious illnesses. He published his first novel ( Almayer's Folly) in 1894. For the next eight years, Conrad continued to work as a sailor (even spending time commanding a steamship in the Belgian Congo), and continued to write. It was about this time he changed his name to the more British-sounding Joseph Conrad and published his first short stories (he wrote in English, his third language after Polish and French). Eventually, he began to sail on British ships, and became a British citizen in 1886, at the age of 29. At seventeen, he traveled to Marseilles and began to work as a sailor. Jozef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski was an orphan by the age of 12 his mother and father both died as a result of time the family spent in exile in Siberia for plotting against the Russian Tsar.
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