text: A high-class character created by this author writes the unpublished "Thirty Years of Misrule," the manuscript of which is used for gun wadding.
full_question: A high-class character created by this author writes the unpublished "Thirty Years of Misrule," the manuscript of which is used for gun wadding. Another character created by this author gets engaged to Antonia Avellanos, but kills himself in isolation on an island where a lighthouse is built after his death. This author created the island Grand Isabel and the city of Sulaco, which is threatened by General Pedro Montero. The absurdity of a ship firing into a continent is described by a character this author introduced in the short story "Youth." Aboard the Nellie, that character narrates a novella in which he travels up the Congo River to find the dying ivory trader Kurtz. For 10 points, name this Polish-British author of Nostromo and Heart of Darkness.
first_sentence: A high-class character created by this author writes the unpublished "Thirty Years of Misrule," the manuscript of which is used for gun wadding.
raw_answer: Joseph Conrad [or Jozef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski]