The Complete Sea Tales of Joseph Conrad. Джозеф Конрад

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       Joseph Conrad

      The Complete Sea Tales of Joseph Conrad

      An Outcast of the Islands, The Nigger of the 'Narcissus', A Smile of Fortune, Typhoon…

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       Novels & Short Stories:

       The Nigger of the ‘Narcissus’: A Tale of the Sea

       The Shadow Line

       Typhoon

       'Twixt Land and Sea

       A Smile of Fortune

       The Secret Sharer

       Freya of the Seven Isles

       The Rescue

       Falk: A Reminiscence

       An Outcast of the Islands

       Autobiographical:

       A Personal Record; or Some Reminiscences

       The Mirror of the Sea

       Notes on Life & Letters

       Biography and Critical Essays:

       Joseph Conrad (A Biography) by Hugh Walpole

       Joseph Conrad by John Albert Macy

       A Conrad Miscellany by John Albert Macy

       Joseph Conrad by Virginia Woolf

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      THE NIGGER OF THE ‘NARCISSUS’:

       A TALE OF THE SEA

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      TO

       EDWARD GARNETT

       THIS TALE

       ABOUT MY FRIENDS

       OF THE SEA

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       TO MY READERS IN AMERICA

       PREFACE

       CHAPTER ONE

       CHAPTER TWO

       CHAPTER THREE

       CHAPTER FOUR

       CHAPTER FIVE

      TO MY READERS IN AMERICA

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      From that evening when James Wait joined the ship—late for the muster of the crew—to the moment when he left us in the open sea, shrouded in sailcloth, through the open port, I had much to do with him. He was in my watch. A negro in a British forecastle is a lonely being. He has no chums. Yet James Wait, afraid of death and making her his accomplice was an impostor of some character—mastering our compassion, scornful of our sentimentalism, triumphing over our suspicions.

      But in the book he is nothing; he is merely the centre of the ship's collective psychology and the pivot of the action. Yet he, who in the family circle and amongst my friends is familiarly referred to as the Nigger, remains very precious to me. For the book written round him is not the sort of thing that can be attempted more than once in a life-time. It is the book by which, not as a novelist perhaps, but as an artist striving for the utmost sincerity of expression, I am willing to stand or fall. Its pages are the tribute of my unalterable and profound affection for the ships, the seamen, the winds and the great sea—the moulders of my youth, the companions of the best years of my life.

      After writing the last words of that book, in the revulsion of feeling before the accomplished task, I understood that I had done with the sea, and that henceforth I had to be a writer. And almost without laying down the pen I wrote a preface, trying to express the spirit in which I was entering on the task of my new life. That preface on advice (which I now think was wrong) was never published with the book. But the late W. E. Henley, who had the courage at that time (1897) to serialize my "Nigger" in the New Review judged it worthy to be printed as an afterword at the end of the last instalment of the tale.

      I am glad that this book which means so much to me is coming out again, under its proper title of "The Nigger of the 'Narcissus'" and under the auspices of my good friends and publishers Messrs. Doubleday, Page & Co. into the light of publicity.

      Half the span of a generation has passed since W. E. Henley, after reading two chapters, sent me a verbal message: "Tell Conrad that if the rest is up to the sample it shall certainly come out in the New Review." The most gratifying recollection