The Secret Sharer, and Heart of Darkness - Softcover

Conrad, Mr Joseph

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1530985986 ISBN 13: 9781530985982

Verlag: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016

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The Secret Sharer
The recently appointed captain of a ship anchored in the Gulf of Siam (now Thailand), feels like a stranger to his new command, the ship and his crew. As a goodwill gesture towards the crew, he announces he will take the anchor watch until one a.m., something usually not done by a ship’s captain. During the watch, while the hands are asleep, he discovers a naked man in the water. He fetches him some of his own clothes and takes him into his stateroom. He feels an inexplicable affinity to the man and keeps his presence secret from the crew.

Heart of Darkness
Published in 1899, the novella depicts a voyage up the Congo River into the Congo Free State, in the heart of Africa, by the story’s narrator Marlow. He tells his story to friends aboard a boat anchored on the River Thames in London, England. Marlow is obsessed with the ivory trader, Kurtz, and parallels are drawn between London and Africa as places of darkness, with the suggestion that there is little difference between so-called civilised people and those described as savages.

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Biografía del autor

Joseph Conrad (1857 – 1924) was a Polish-British writer regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language. He was granted British nationality in 1886 but always considered himself a Pole. Though he did not speak English fluently until he was in his twenties (and always with a marked accent), he was a master prose stylist who brought a distinctly non-English sensibility into English literature. He wrote stories and novels, many with a nautical setting, which depict trials of the human spirit in the midst of an impassive, inscrutable universe.

Conrad’s narrative style and anti-heroic characters have influenced many authors, including D. H. Lawrence, T. S. Eliot, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, George Orwell, Graham Greene, William Golding, William S. Burroughs, Gabriel García Márquez, John le Carré. And many films have been adapted from, or inspired by, Conrad’s works.

Writing in the heyday of the British Empire, Conrad drew on his native Poland’s national experiences and on his personal experiences in the French and British merchant navies to create short stories and novels that reflect aspects of a European-dominated world, while profoundly exploring human psychology.

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• Verlag: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1530985986
• ISBN 13: 9781530985982
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 148