Fiction · 1910
The Secret Sharer
A young, untested ship's captain, alone on his first command, discovers a naked stranger clinging to the sea-ladder one night — Leggatt, a fellow captain's mate who has fled after killing a man during a storm — and hides him in his own cabin for days, risking his ship and his authority to shelter a man who is, in every visible way, his double.
Conrad published the novella in 1910, drawing on a real 1880 case aboard the ship Cutty Sark that he had read about.
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1857–1924 · Victorian
Joseph Conrad (1857–1924) was born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski in what is now Ukraine, to Polish parents exiled for their politics. He went to sea at sixteen, served in French and then British merchant ships for twenty years, rising to master, and began to write in English — his third language — in his late thirties. Almayer’s Folly (1895), Heart of Darkness (1899), Lord Jim (1900), Nostromo (1904), The Secret Agent (1907) and Under Western Eyes (1911) are among his works. He lived in the south of England, mostly in Kent, from 1896 until his death.
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