The Secret Sharer

Joseph Conrad

• Stories
• Book language: English
• 42 pages

The Secret Sharer is a novella by Joseph Conrad. It tells of a young, inexperienced sea captain who takes command of a ship in Eastern waters and secretly shelters a fugitive from another vessel. It is a tense psychological study of isolation, duty, and the divided self, worth listening to for its atmospheric prose and moral ambiguity.

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