{"product_id":"the-nigger-of-the-narcissus-and-other-stories-9780141441702","title":"The Nigger of the 'Narcissus' and Other Stories","description":"The volume includes: 'Youth'; 'The Secret Sharer'; 'The Lagoon'; 'An Outpost of Progress'; 'Il Conde'; 'The Duel'. The intention is a range of settings - we move from the sea to the colonial world, the Far East and Africa to England and then the Continent. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoseph Conrad \u003c\/b\u003ewas born in Berdichev, Ukraine, in 1857. After both of his parents died of tuberculosis, Conrad went to live with his uncle in Switzerland. After attending school in Kraków, he joined the French and then the British merchant marines, sailing to exotic destinations like the West Indies and the Congo, which would later become the backdrops for some of his fiction. In 1894 he settled down in England and began his literary career. In 1902 Conrad published his most famous work, \u003ci\u003eHeart of Darkness\u003c\/i\u003e, and continued to write until his death in 1924. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eGail Fraser, \u003c\/b\u003e author of \u003ci\u003eThe Lumby Lines\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eStealing Lumby\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eLumby's Bounty\u003c\/i\u003e, continues to work full-time on her acclaimed series about the extraordinary town of Lumby. She and her husband, artist Art Poulin, live with their beloved animals on Lazy Goose Farm in rural upstate New York. When not writing, Gail tends to their garden, orchard, and beehives. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAllan H. Simmons\u003c\/b\u003e is a professor of modern and 20th-century literature at St. Mary's University, Twickenham, in London, and is a leading authority on the works of Joseph Conrad. He has coedited several volumes on Conrad, and was appointed co-General Editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Cambridge Edition of the Works of Joseph Conrad\u003c\/i\u003e with Dr. J. H. Stape in 2008. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eJ. H. Stape\u003c\/b\u003e is a research fellow at St. Mary's University, Twickenham, in London, and a recognized authority on the works of Joseph Conrad. Along with being a coeditor of several volumes on Conrad, he was the general editor of Conrad for Penguin Books, to which he contributed an edition of \u003ci\u003eTyphoon and Other Stories\u003c\/i\u003e. Stape has taught at universities around the world and has also published about the works of E. M. Forster, William Golding, Thomas Hardy, and Virginia Woolf.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Penguin Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50565410128146,"sku":"9780141441702","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_f90e35f7-5776-4167-9600-fbceb8850dc0.jpg?v=1731885625","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-nigger-of-the-narcissus-and-other-stories-9780141441702","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}