Borys conrad biography of rory

&#;Sleepe after toyle, port after stormie seas,

Ease after warre, death after life does greatly please.&#;

-          Spenser, &#;The Fairie Queene&#; ()

Joseph Conrad was laid to rest in Canterbury Cemetery on August 7^th This is the epitaph on his tombstone. I&#;d wanted to visit Conrad&#;s grave ever since I&#;d first learned he was buried in Canterbury when reading Jocelyn Baines&#;s () doorstopper of a biography of the famous writer a long time ago. At the start of the summer last year I finally made that pilgrimage, of sorts. It was only my second trip to Canterbury. My first trip there had been made some sixteen years or so before, for a friend&#;s wedding. At the time I had thought about trying to find Conrad&#;s resting place, but back then I didn&#;t know where Canterbury Cemetery was, and in the end there wasn&#;t enough time to combine the two ventures &#; or so I thought at the time, for now oddly enough, having done a little research, I found the cemetery was in fact only a stone&#;s throw from the house where I&#;d stayed for the wedding!

My sister had introduced me to Conrad&#;s novels when I was a teenager. The book she&#;d first recommended &#; Under Western Eyes &#; is perhaps my favourite (a

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