Nigger of the “Narcissus”（白水仙号上的黑家伙）

The text is the authoritative version used in the Collected Works published in 1921, which Conrad prepared from a 1910 reprint of the original English version of 1898. Corrections and emendations have been made on the basis of a thorough collation of all extant versions of the novel. The text is annotated and is followed by a detailed textual appendix consisting of materials on the textual history and present text, a list of textual variants, a glossary of nautical terms, illustrations showing details essential to an understanding of the novel, and an essay written especially for this Norton Critical Edition by Denis Murphy, explaining the seamanship used during the storm in Chapter Three.
　　An unusually full selection of background and source materials begins with Conrad's "Preface," which originally appeared as an afterword in the fifth magazine installment of the novel but was suppressed in the early book editions. The "Preface" is accompanied by a textual history and textual notes prepared by Thomas Lavoie and a critical essay by Ian Watt. Also provided are Conrad's preface "To My American Readers" (1914), extracts from letters and essays in which Conrad comments on the ship and the story, and biographical pieces by Edward Garnett (Conrad's informal literary agent and advisor) and G. Jean-Aubry (his first formal biographer). The section closes with an essay by Gerald Morgan, written for this Norton Critical Edition, about the actual ship Narcissus and Conrad's connection with her.
　　A selection of contemporary reviews is followed by critical essays (some written especially for this Norton Critical Edition) by Albert Guerard, Ian Watt, Norris W. Yates, Gerald Morgan, Donald T. Torchiana, John E. Saveson, Sanford Pinsker, Robert Foulke, William W. Bonney, John Howard Weston, Paul Wiley, and Eugene B. Redmond.

Robert Kimbrough is Professor of English Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, where he has taught since he received his Ph.D. from Harvard. He is the author of Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida and Its Setting, Sir Philip Sidney, and numerous scholarly articles, and is the editor of the Norton Critical Editions of Heart of Darkness and The Turn of the Screw.

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JOSEPH CONRAD (1857-1924) was one of the most remarkable figures in English literature. Born in Poland, and originally named Josef Teodor Konrad Walecz Korzeniowski, he went to sea at the age of seventeen and eventually joined the crew of an English vessel, becoming a British citizen in the process. He retired from the sea in 1894 and took up the pen, writing all his works in English, a language he had only learned as an adult. Despite this, he was a master stylist, both lush and precise. His outsider's eye gave him special insights into the moral dangers of the great age of European empires. In his prefactory note to _The Nigger of the Narcissus,_ Conrad wrote, "A work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line. And art itself may be defined as a single-minded attempt to render the highest kind of justice to the visible universe, by bringing to light the truth, manifold and one, underlying its every aspect. . . ." --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Preface
The Text of The Nigger of the "Narcissus"
The Nigger of the "Narcissus"
Textual Appendix
　Textual History
　Present Text
　Textual Notes
　Glossary of Nautical Terms
　Illustrations
　Dennis Murphy·Seamanship in Chapter Three of The Nigger of the "Narcissus"
Backgrounds and Sources
　Joseph Conrad·Preface to The Nigger of the "Narcissus"
　Thomas Lavoie·Textual History and Textual Notes:　The "Preface"
　Ian Watt·Conrad's Preface to The Nigger of the "Narcissus"
　Joseph Conrad·To My Readers in America
　Edward Gamett·Letters from Joseph Conrad
　Joseph Conrad·From His Correspondence
　　To T. Fisher Unwin, October 10 1896
　　To Edward Gamett, October-November 1896
　　To Edward Lancelot Sanderson, November 21, 1896
　　To Edward Garnett, November-December 1896
　　To T. Fisher Unwin, December 13, 1896
　　To Edward Garnett, December 1896-January 1897
　　To Helen Watson, January 27,1897
　　To Edward Lancelot Sanderson, January 27, 1897
　　To Edward Garnett, February-March 1897
　　To Edward Lancelot Sanderson, May 19, 1897
　　To Edward Garnett, May-June 1897
　　To Helen Watson, June 27, 1897
　　To R. B. Cunninghame Graham, August 9, 1897
　　To Edward Garnett, August-November 1897
　　To Mrs. Richard Garnett, November 4, 1897
　　To Stephen Crane, November 1897
　　To Edward Garnett, December 5, 1897
　　To R. B. Cunninghame Graham, December 6-20, 1897
　　From W. H. Chesson, January 13, 1898
　　To W. H. Chesson, January 16, 1898
　　To Henry Seidel Canby, April 7, 1924
　Joseph Conrad·Stephen Crane
　Joseph Conrad·[The Ship and the Sea]
　Joseph Conrad·A Familiar Preface
　G. Jean-Aubry·[Conrad on the Narcissus]
　Gerald Morgan·The Book of the Ship Narcissus
Reviews and Criticism
　Contemporary Reviews
　　From the Daily Mail, December 7, 1897
　　From the Daily Telegraph, December 8, 1897
　　From the Glasgow Herald, December 9, 1897
　　From the Daily Chronicle, December 22, 1897
　　From the Spectator, December 25, 1897
　Criticism
　Albert Guerard·The Nigger of the "Narc/ssus"
　Ian Watt·Conrad Criticism and The Nigger of the "Narc/ssus"
　Norris W. Yates·Social Comment jn The Nigger of the "Narcissus'"
　Gerald Morgan·Narcissus Afloat
　Donald T. Torehiana·The Nigger of the "Nare/ssus": Myth, Mirror, and Metropolis
　John E. Saveson·Contemporary Psychology in The Nigger of the "Narcissus"
　Sanford Pinsker·Selective Memory, Leisure, and the Language of Joseph Conrad's The Nigger　of the "Narcissus"
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Selected Bibliography