
'The Secret Sharer' by Joseph Conrad is a compelling novella that delves into themes of identity, morality, authority, and male bonding within fewer than a hundred pages. The story follows a young ship's captain who harbors a fugitive on his ship, leading to a complex internal struggle between following maritime law or following his personal feelings.
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The Secret Sharer, actual accident at sea, is an exciting adventure tale that reveals truths about human nature on several levels. Albert J. Guerard of Stanford University wrote that these two stories are "among the finest of Conrad's short novels, and among the half-dozen greatest short novels in the English language." And Virginia Woolf wrote of Conrad, "His books are full of moments of vision. They light up a whole character in a flash. . . . He could not write badly, one feels, to save his life.
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Joseph Conrad was a Polish-British writer regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language. He joined the British merchant marine in 1878, and was granted British citizenship in 1886.
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