Typhoon | Related Titles
"Typhoon" is related to a number of Conrad's other tales that emphasize disasters and perils at sea, as well as the character of a particular captain or ship's , master in the English merchant service. Included in this group are "Youth," The Nigger of the Narcissus, The End of the Tether (1903), and perhaps "The Secret Sharer" (1912; see separate entry), which, for all its concern about the fugitive representing Marlow's darker side, is also a story about the test of Marlow on his first voyage as a ship's captain. Readers can easily infer some conclusions about MacWhirr by...
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