The Nigger Of The Narcissus: A Tale Of The Forecastle

The Nigger of the Narcissus A Tale of the Forecastle[a] (sometimes subtitled A Tale of the Sea) first published in the United States as The Children of the Sea is an 1897 novella by Polish-British novelist Joseph Conrad. The central character is an Afro-Caribbean man who is ill at sea while aboard the trading ship Narcissus heading towards London. Controversy around the use of the word nigger in the title saw the US name changed in 1897 and a 2009 version titled The N-Word of the Narcissus. Because of the novellas superb quality compared to Conrads earlier works some critics have described it as marking the start of Conrads major or middle period others have placed it as the best work of his early period.