How Long to Read The Nigger of the Narcissus : a Tale of the Sea. By:Joseph Conrad, and By: Edward Garnett (1868-1937)

How Long Does it Take to Read The Nigger of the Narcissus : a Tale of the Sea. By:Joseph Conrad, and By: Edward Garnett (1868-1937)?

It takes the average reader 1 hour and 30 minutes to read The Nigger of the Narcissus : a Tale of the Sea. By:Joseph Conrad, and By: Edward Garnett (1868-1937) by Joseph Conrad

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

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The Nigger of the 'Narcissus': A Tale of the Sea (1897) is a novella by Joseph Conrad. Because of its quality compared to earlier works, some have described it as marking the start of Conrad's major, or middle, period;others have placed it as the best work of his early, or first, period. Plot: The title character, James Wait, is a dying West Indian black sailor on board the merchant ship Narcissus sailing from Bombay to London. Wait, suffering from tuberculosis, becomes seriously ill during the voyage, and his plight arouses the humanitarian sympathies of many of the crew. However, the ship's master Captain Alistoun and an old sailor named Singleton remain concerned primarily with their duties and appear indifferent to Wait's condition. Off the Cape of Good Hope the ship capsizes onto her beam-ends with half her hull submerged, and the crew clings onto the deck for an entire night and day, waiting in silence for the ship to turn over the rest of the way and sink. Alistoun refuses to allow the masts to be severed, which might allow the hull to right itself. Five of the men, realizing that Wait is unaccounted for, climb down to his cabin and rescue him at their own peril. When the storm passes and a wind returns, Alistoun directs the weary men to catch the wind, which succeeds in righting the ship. Later in the voyage Alistoun prevents a near-mutiny led by a slippery Cockney named Donkin. Wait eventually succumbs and dies within sight of land, as Singleton had predicted he would.... Edward William Garnett (1868-1937) was an English writer, critic and literary editor, who was instrumental in getting D. H. Lawrence's Sons and Lovers published. His father Richard Garnett (1835-1906) was a writer and librarian at the British Museum. His wife was Constance Garnett, known for her translations of Russian literature, married on 31 August 1889; the writer David Garnett was their son, born 9 March 1892..... Joseph Conrad (Polish pronunciation: [born Jozef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski; 3 December 1857 - 3 August 1924) 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 nationality in 1886. Though he did not speak English fluently until his twenties, he was a master prose stylist who brought a non-English sensibility into English literature.He wrote stories and novels, many with a nautical setting, that depict trials of the human spirit in the midst of an impassive, inscrutable universe. Conrad is considered an early modernist, though his works still contain elements of 19th-century realism. His narrative style and anti-heroic characters have influenced many authors, including F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Andre Malraux, [6] George Orwell: 254 Graham Greene, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, John le Carre, V. S. Naipaul, Philip Roth, J. M. Coetzee, and Salman Rushdie. Many films have been adapted from, or inspired by, Conrad's works. Writing in the heyday of the British Empire, Conrad drew on, among other things, his native Poland's national experiences, and his own experiences in the French and British merchant navies, to create short stories and novels that reflect aspects of a European-dominated world-including imperialism and colonialism-and that profoundly explore the human psyche.

How long is The Nigger of the Narcissus : a Tale of the Sea. By:Joseph Conrad, and By: Edward Garnett (1868-1937)?

The Nigger of the Narcissus : a Tale of the Sea. By:Joseph Conrad, and By: Edward Garnett (1868-1937) by Joseph Conrad is 88 pages long, and a total of 22,704 words.

This makes it 30% the length of the average book. It also has 28% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Nigger of the Narcissus : a Tale of the Sea. By:Joseph Conrad, and By: Edward Garnett (1868-1937) Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 2 hours and 4 minutes to read The Nigger of the Narcissus : a Tale of the Sea. By:Joseph Conrad, and By: Edward Garnett (1868-1937) aloud.

What Reading Level is The Nigger of the Narcissus : a Tale of the Sea. By:Joseph Conrad, and By: Edward Garnett (1868-1937)?

The Nigger of the Narcissus : a Tale of the Sea. By:Joseph Conrad, and By: Edward Garnett (1868-1937) is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

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