Youth ; A Narrative

Youth is an 1898 autobiographical short story by Joseph Conrad[1] published in Blackwoods Magazine and then included as the first story in Conrads 1902 volume Youth a Narrative and Two Other Stories. This volume also includes Heart of Darkness and The End of the Tether stories concerned with the themes of maturity and old age respectively. Youth depicts a young mans first journey to the East. It is narrated by Charles Marlow who is also the narrator of Lord Jim Chance and Heart of Darkness. The narrators introduction suggests this is the first time chronologically the character Marlow appears in Conrads works (the narrator comments that he thinks Marlow spells his name this way).