The Nigger of the 'Narcissus': A Tale of the Forecastle by Joseph Conrad

The Nigger of the 'Narcissus': A Tale of the Forecastle

Joseph Conrad

202 pages first pub 1897 (editions)

fiction classics adventurous challenging reflective slow-paced
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The title character, James Wait, is a dying West Indian black sailor on board the merchant ship Narcissus, on which he finds passage from Bombay to London. Suffering from tuberculosis, Wait becomes seriously ill almost from the outset, eliciting s...

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