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“My task... is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel - it is, before all, to make you see. That - and no more, and it is everything. If I succeed, you shall find there, according to your deserts, encouragement, consolation, fear, charm, all you demand - and, perhaps, also that glimpse of truth for which you have forgotten to ask” Conrad, from the preface to "The Nigger of the Narcissus. "Narcissus was a real ship, a pretty Clyde built semi-clipper and Conrad sailed on her as second mate. Conrad's descriptions of life on the “heartless sea” and the operation of sailing ships are indisputably work of the highest authenticity and rank amongst the canon of must-reads for anyone seriously interested in the subject. Please Note: This book is easy to read in true text, not scanned images that can sometimes be difficult to decipher. The Microsoft eBook has a contents page linked to the chapter headings for easy navigation.
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Fiction, Blacks, Tuberculosis in fiction, Patients, West Indians in fiction, West Indians, Ocean travel in fiction, Ocean travel, Terminally ill in fiction, Terminally ill, Tuberculosis, Blacks in fiction, Authors, Correspondence, English Adventure stories, Biography, Nigger of the Narcissus" (Conrad, Joseph)", Aufsatzsammlung, English Authors, 19th century fiction, Modern fiction, Short stories, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), British and irish drama (dramatic works by one author), American fiction (fictional works by one author), Adventure, Maritime fiction, Seafaring life, Ships, Europeans, General, Fiction, sea stories, Fiction, psychological, England, fictionPeople
Joseph Conrad (1857-1924)Places
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The nigger of the "Narcissus": a tale of the sea
2010, Floating Press
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The Nigger of the 'Narcissus' (Penguin Classics)
June 7, 1988, Penguin Classics
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The Nigger of the "Narcissus": a tale of the sea
1984, Oxford University Press
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The nigger of the "Narcissus": an authoritative text, backgrounds and sources, reviews and criticism
1979, Norton
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Nigger of the Narcissus
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"Mr. Baker, chief mate of the ship Narcissus, stepped in one stride out of his lighted cabin into the darkness of the quarter-deck."
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