The Secret Sharer EPUB
by Joseph Conrad
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The Secret Sharer is a short story by Polish-British author Joseph Conrad, originally written in 1909.
As dusk begins to fall, the unnamed narrator of the story, the new Captain of a British vessel currently anchored at the mouth of the Meinam River in the Gulf of Siam, stands on the deck of his ship before joining his crew for supper.
The time is approximately eight o'clock. At supper, the Captain remarks that he saw the masts of a ship anchored amongst some nearby islands.
The Chief Mate explains that the ship to which the Captain is referring is probably another English one, waiting for a favorable tide to sail home.
The Second Mate elaborates: the ship is the Sephora, from Liverpool, and is bound home from Cardiff with a cargo of coal, which he had learned from the skipper of a tugboat who had previously come aboard to fetch the Captain's letters...
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- Publication Date:08/10/2021
- ISBN:9783985315024
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- Publisher:Otbebookpublishing
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- ISBN:9783985315024