The Nigger of the Narcissus by Joseph Conrad
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Joseph Conrad (author)
This Halcyon Classics ebook is Joseph Conrad's classic modernist novel THE NIGGER OF THE NARCISSUS.The story revolves around James Wait, a West Indian sailor of African descent aboard the 'Narcissus' sailing from Bombay to London. Wait falls seriously ill during the voyage, and his plight...
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This Halcyon Classics ebook is Joseph Conrad's classic modernist novel THE NIGGER OF THE NARCISSUS.The story revolves around James Wait, a West Indian sailor of African descent aboard the 'Narcissus' sailing from Bombay to London. Wait falls seriously ill during the voyage, and his plight arouses the humanitarian sympathies of many of the crew, some of whom rescue him during a storm, placing their own lives and the ship at risk. However, others of the crew are indifferent or hostile to Wait, concerned primarily with their duties and lives.
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Format: ebook
ISBN:
2940011855139 (0011855134)
Publish date: October 14th 2010
Publisher: Halcyon Press Ltd.
Edition language: English
bookshelves: e-book, autumn-2012, shortstory-shortstories-novellas, published-1897, victorian, seven-seas, plague-disease Read from November 06 to 07, 2012 TOEDWARD GARNETTTHIS TALEABOUT MY FRIENDSOF THE SEA Opening: Mr. Baker, chief mate of the ship Narcissus, stepped in one stride out of his l...
COPYRIGHT, 1897, 1914,BY DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANYTOEDWARD GARNETTTHIS TALEABOUT MY FRIENDSOF THE SEACHAPTER ONEMr. Baker, chief mate of the ship Narcissus, stepped in one stride out of his lighted cabin into the darkness of the quarter-deck. Above his head, on the break of the poop, the night-watch...
This edition of Nigger Of The Nostromo offers an alternate, more PC title to that of the original, which makes sense to me, since the N-word in the other title actually only became the nasty word it is today, in the interim since Conrad had published this.I'd never read this before, I suspect partly...
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