This book offers a good way to get a better knowing about the author since ist is bascially based on realtiry. It is a story about a young man who is on his way to the East, and the story is narrated by another character, Charles Marlowe.

Youth is an autobiographical short story by Joseph Conrad. Written in 1898, it was first published in Blackwood's Magazine, and included as the first story in the 1902 volume Youth, a Narrative, and Two Other Stories. It depicts a young man's first journey to the East. It is narrated by Charles Marlow The narrator's introduction suggests this is the first time, chronologically, the character Marlow appears in Conrad's works

Joseph Conrad（3 December 1857 – 3 August 1942) was a Polish author who wrote in English after settling in England.He wrote stories and novels, 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 non-English sensibility into English literature.