The Nigger of the ‘Narcissus’ and Other Stories

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.

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