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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Text source: gutenberg.org · The work is in the public domain.
Opening of the book
THE SECRET SHARER By Joseph Conrad Contents I On my right hand there were lines of fishing stakes resembling a mysterious system of half-submerged bamboo fences, incomprehensible in its division of the domain of tropical fishes, and crazy of aspect as if abandoned forever by some nomad tribe of fishermen now gone to the other end of the ocean; for there was no sign of human habitation as far as the eye could reach. To the left a group of barren islets, suggesting ruins of stone walls, towers, and blockhouses, had its foundations set in a blue sea that itself looked solid, so still and stable did it lie below my feet; even the track of light from the westering sun shone smoothly, without that animated glitter which tells of an imperceptible ripple. And when I
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