The nigger of the Narcissus / Joseph Conrad ; edited, with an introduction and notes, by Cedric Watts.
By: Conrad, Joseph.
Contributor(s): Watts, Cedric [editor]
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BookSeries: Penguin twentieth-century classics.Publisher: London : Penguin, 1988Description: l, 151 p. : map ; 20 cm.ISBN: 014018094X.Subject(s): Sea stories, American | Seafaring life in literature | Sailors in literatureDDC classification: 823.91 CON
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| General Lending | MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Store Item | 823.91 CON (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00062446 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
A dying sailor casts a pall over the other crew members of the Narcissus, as it sails home to London from Bombay.
Author notes provided by Syndetics
Joseph Conrad is recognized as one of the 20th century's greatest English language novelists.He was born Jozef Konrad Nalecz Korzeniowski on December 3, 1857, in the Polish Ukraine. His father, a writer and translator, was from Polish nobility, but political activity against Russian oppression led to his exile. Conrad was orphaned at a young age and subsequently raised by his uncle.
At 17 he went to sea, an experience that shaped the bleak view of human nature which he expressed in his fiction. In such works as Lord Jim (1900), Youth (1902), and Nostromo (1904), Conrad depicts individuals thrust by circumstances beyond their control into moral and emotional dilemmas. His novel Heart of Darkness (1902), perhaps his best known and most influential work, narrates a literal journey to the center of the African jungle. This novel inspired the acclaimed motion picture Apocalypse Now.
After the publication of his first novel, Almayer's Folly (1895), Conrad gave up the sea. He produced thirteen novels, two volumes of memoirs, and twenty-eight short stories. He died on August 3, 1924, in England.
(Bowker Author Biography)