The title character of a story by this author is given a sixpence with a hole in it by some gunrunners to ward off the voice of a friend whom he betrayed. In a story by this author, a man declares, “I loved my brother,” after telling of how he left that brother to die to save his love Diamelen. In a novel by this author that grew out of the story “Two Vagabonds,” Aïssa (“eye-EE-sah”) shoots Peter Willems after both of them are abandoned by Tom (*) Lingard. It is rumored that one of this author’s protagonists hides a priceless emerald on the body of a beautiful half-native woman from whom he is inseparable. This author wrote “Karain” and “The Lagoon.” One of this author’s protagonists offers a “latter-day buccaneer” a “clear road or else a clear fight,” after which that pirate massacres a band of natives. For 10 points, name this author who created a man who defeats Sherif Ali to gain control of Patusan in the novel Lord Jim. ■END■
ANSWER: Joseph Conrad [or Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski] (The powermark clue is from An Outcast of the Islands.)
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