The title character of one of this man's works abandons the passengers of the S. S. Patna and meets a character who also appears in a novel narrated on the Nellie in Lord Jim, while in another work that character visits the fiancee of a man whose last words were "The Horror!
In one of this man's works, Stevie's brother Verloc tries to blow up Greenwich Observatory. In addition to The Secret Agent, this author wrote a book criticized by Chinua Achebe in a lecture entitled An Image of Africa. The title character of one of this man's works abandons the passengers of the S. S. Patna and meets a character who also appears in a novel narrated on the Nellie in Lord Jim, while in another work that character visits the fiancee of a man whose last words were "The Horror! The Horror!" For 10 points, name this author of a work about Marlow's search for Kurtz, Heart of Darkness.
In one of this man's works, Stevie's brother Verloc tries to blow up Greenwich Observatory.
Joseph Conrad [accept Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski]