The Secret Sharer and Other Stories By Joseph Conrad

By Joseph Conrad

Book Overview

Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) spent much of his life at sea, and his experiences as a mariner deeply influenced his fiction. He set many of his finest stories aboard ship, where his characters -- closely confined, enduring the rigors of the sea -- might struggle more intensely with the psychological and moral issues that engaged him. This volume contains three of Conrad's most powerful stories in this genre: "Youth: A Narrative" (1898), "Typhoon" (1902) and "The Secret Sharer" (1910).
In each of these exciting tales, Conrad's celebrated prose style, rich in the cadences of the sea, draws readers into a story that probes deeply, often suspensefully, into the mysteries of human character. Here are adventures of the sea and of the soul, related by a novelist considered one of the greatest writers in the language, reprinted from authoritative editions.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0486275469
• ISBN13: 9780486275468
• Release Date: April 1993
• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.0" x 8.0"
• Age Range: 14 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 9 and higher