Youth is a short story by Joseph Conrad. Joseph Conrad (born Jozef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, 3 December 1857 - 3 August 1924, Bishopsbourne, Kent, England) was a Polish author who wrote in English after settling in England. He was granted British nationality in 1886, but always considered himself a Pole. Conrad is regarded as one of the greatest velists in English, though he did t speak the language fluently until he was in his twenties (and always with a marked accent). He wrote stories and vels, often with a nautical setting, that depict trials of the human spirit in the midst of an indifferent universe. He was a master prose stylist who brought a distinctly n-English tragic sensibility into English literature.