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The Nigger of the Narcissus is a magnificent saga of suspense, compassion, and elemental beauty--the voyage of a trim and gallant sailing ship and the tormented men who sailed her.
Into this tumultuous novel Joseph Conrad crowds some of his most unforgettable characters. There is James Wait--The "Nigger" of the Narcissus--who bullied and beguiled his shipmates with his impending death; Belfast, whose Irish pugnacity and gentle devotion to Wait earned him universal respect; Wamibo, a dreamy and disheveled giant; the Cook who preached hellfire and brimstone to save the Nigger's soul' the venomous Donkin, discoursing on the rights of men; and old Singleton--wise, barbaric, and serene.
Caught in a mortal struggle against the awesome fury of the sea, the Narcissus is the scene of raging hate and unpredictable tenderness, a maelstrom of emotions hurling the crew toward mutiny and disaster.
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Joseph Conrad's account of the voyage of a sailing-ship from Bombay harbour to the Port of London combines uniquely the skills of the master mariner with the power of the master novelist. It evokes in intense and exact detail what it felt like to negotiate the great wind belts of two oceans. But is is also Conrad's first major exploration of the psychology of service-of the pressure on a group of seamen 'brought to the test...of the moral problems of conduct' by their encounter with elemental nature and with the secret terrors and evasions of two of their comrades.
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Nigger of the Narcissus, Typhoon and Other Stories
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Penguin Modern Classics, 1979
ISBN 10: 0460109804
ISBN 13: 9780460109802
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