The Nigger Of The Narcissus Large Print

The story of one voyage of the sailing-ship Narcissus from Bombay to London--a story dealing with calms and with storms, with mutiny on the high seas, with bravery and with cowardice, with tumultuous life, and with death, the releaser from toil.

A dying sailor boards the Narcissus and acts as a memento mori upon his shipmates, eliciting pity and selfless compassion as well as fear, resentment, and a profound hatred. ..

Conrad's hypnotic novel set aboard a merchant ship sailing from Bombay to London. Based on his own personal experiences at sea, it revolves around the escapades of a sailor named James Wait. Truly mesmerizing!

, its colour, its form; and through its movement, its form, and its colour, reveal the substance of its truth-disclose its inspiring secret: the stress and passion within the core of each convincing moment. In a single-minded attempt of that kind, if one be deserving and fortunate, one may perchance attain to such clearness of sincerity that at last the presented vision of regret or pity, of terror or mirth, shall awaken in the hearts of the beholders that feeling of unavoidable solidarity; of the solidarity in mysterious origin, in toil, in joy, in hope, in uncertain fate, which binds men to each other and all mankind to the visible world. It is evident that he who, rightly or wrongly, holds by the convictions expressed above cannot be faithful to any one of the temporary formulas of his craft. The enduring part of them-the truth which each only imperfectly veils-should abide with him as the most precious of his possessions, but they all: Realism, Romanticism, Naturalism, even the unofficial sentimentalism (which like the poor, is exceedingly difficult to get rid of, ) all these gods must, after a short period of fellowship, abandon him-even on the very threshold of the temple-to the stammerings of his conscience and to the outspoken consciousness of the difficulties of his work. In that uneasy solitude the supreme cry of Art for Art itself, loses the exciting ring of its apparent immorality. It sounds far off. It has ceased to be a cry, and is heard only as a whisper, often incomprehensible, but at times and faintly encouraging

Conrad's hypnotic novel set aboard a merchant ship sailing from Bombay to London. Based on his own personal experiences at sea, it revolves around the escapades of a sailor named James Wait. Truly mesmerizing!

A dying sailor boards the Narcissus and his shipmates react with compassion as well as fear and hatred. Conrad's powerful narrative technique offers a compelling study of character under stressful conditions.