The Nigger Of The 'Narcissus': Also Typhoon And The Shadow Line
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Joseph Conrad's The Nigger of the 'Narcissus' stands as one of the most viscerally powerful sea narratives in the English literary canon, chronicling the voyage of the merchant vessel Narcissus from Bombay to London and the crew's fateful entanglement with James Wait, a gravely ill Black sailor whose presence aboard the ship becomes a catalyst for moral chaos, superstition, and collective dread. Set against the vast, indifferent backdrop of the open ocean, this landmark novella presents the ship's company as a microcosm of humanity, testing the bonds of loyalty, solidarity, and self-preservation against the merciless forces of nature. Paired in this volume with Typhoon — a taut account of Captain MacWhirr's stoic confrontation with a catastrophic storm — and The Shadow Line, Conrad's haunting meditation on the passage from youth to commanding authority, this collection illustrates the full range of his maritime genius. Conrad's prose achieves something rare: a style at once impressionistic and precise, imbued with a brooding psychological depth that transforms sea adventure into profound philosophical inquiry. His seamen are not heroes in the romantic sense but ordinary men stripped bare by circumstance, revealing the ambiguities of courage, leadership, and the human need for myth. As a cornerstone of modernist literature, these three works argue powerfully that the sea is not merely a setting but an existential arena — and the question of what a man becomes when all familiar certainties are washed away lingers long after the final page.
Author: Joseph Conrad
Format: Paperback
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Joseph Conrad's The Nigger of the 'Narcissus' stands as one of the most viscerally powerful sea narratives in the English literary canon, chronicling the voyage of the merchant vessel Narcissus from Bombay to London and the crew's fateful entanglement with James Wait, a gravely ill Black sailor whose presence aboard the ship becomes a catalyst for moral chaos, superstition, and collective dread. Set against the vast, indifferent backdrop of the open ocean, this landmark novella presents the ship's company as a microcosm of humanity, testing the bonds of loyalty, solidarity, and self-preservation against the merciless forces of nature. Paired in this volume with Typhoon — a taut account of Captain MacWhirr's stoic confrontation with a catastrophic storm — and The Shadow Line, Conrad's haunting meditation on the passage from youth to commanding authority, this collection illustrates the full range of his maritime genius. Conrad's prose achieves something rare: a style at once impressionistic and precise, imbued with a brooding psychological depth that transforms sea adventure into profound philosophical inquiry. His seamen are not heroes in the romantic sense but ordinary men stripped bare by circumstance, revealing the ambiguities of courage, leadership, and the human need for myth. As a cornerstone of modernist literature, these three works argue powerfully that the sea is not merely a setting but an existential arena — and the question of what a man becomes when all familiar certainties are washed away lingers long after the final page.