"Because of the Dollars" is a short story written by Joseph Conrad (1857-1924). First published in 1914, it is a typical Conradian tale of sea, sacrifice and disenchantment.
Joseph Conrad was a Polish-British writer regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language. Though he did not speak English fluently until his twenties, he was a master prose stylist who brought a non-English sensibility into English literature.