Search for: [Abstract = "Joseph Conrad Korzeniowski, an outstanding Polish writer living in the British Empire, remained a Polish patriot. The outbreak of the First World War meant a change in the political situ\?ation in Europe, and thus the chance for Poland to regain sovereignty. Polish state did not exist for over a hundred years after the partition made by Germany, Austria and Russia. Conrad devoted two political sketches to the analysis of the situation and prospects of the Polish independence."]