by Joseph Conrad
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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