Ratings11
Average rating3.5
This compact novel, completed in 1900, as with so many of the great novels of the time, is at its baseline a book of the sea. An English boy in a simple town has dreams bigger than the outdoors and embarks at an early age into the sailor's life. The waters he travels reward him with the ability to explore the human spirit, while Joseph Conrad launches the story into both an exercise of his technical prowess and a delicately crafted picture of a character who reaches the status of a literary hero.
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Ringing in the century that shall create the material means for both great artistic output and great ambiguity in art, Conrad's psychological novel bridges the 19th and 20th centuries, marrying romantic moralism to modern inscrutability. A slog in parts but well worth it.
6.0/10.