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LEAD: In high school you probably studied the novella "Heart of Darkness" by Joseph Conrad. There is a new biography of the Ukrainian-born ethically Polish writer, who wrote some of the greatest works of English literature, by John Stape "The Several Lives of Joseph Conrad".

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John Stape-The Several Lives of Joseph Conrad