About The Nigger of the ‘Narcissus’ and Other Stories
The volume includes: ‘Youth’; ‘The Secret Sharer’; ‘The Lagoon’; ‘An Outpost of Progress’; ‘Il Conde’; ‘The Duel’. The intention is a range of settings – we move from the sea to the colonial world, the Far East and Africa to England and then the Continent.
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Joseph Conrad was born in Berdichev, Ukraine, in 1857. After both of his parents died of tuberculosis, Conrad went to live with his uncle in Switzerland. After attending school in Kraków, he joined the French and then the British merchant marines,… More about Joseph Conrad
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