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The nigger of the Narcissus a tale of the forecastle, by Joseph Conrad.ĩ06 _ |a 7 |b cbc |c oclcrpl |d u |e ncip |f 19 |g y-gencatlgĢ45đ4 |a The nigger of the Narcissus |b a tale of the forecastle, |c by Joseph Conrad.Ģ60 _ |a Garden City, New York, |b Doubleday, Page & Company, |c 1914.ģ00 _ |a xiii p., 1 l., 217, p. I don't feel like looking around for an actual record of that edition, but it's out there.
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That evening, former reckless driver Tony Marston is found murdered by a deadly. Over dinner, a record begins to play, and the voice of an unseen host accuses each person of hiding a guilty secret. "Nigger of the Narcissus" actually does have an alternative title: Children of the Sea, from an 1897 edition. Ten strangers, apparently with little in common, are lured to an island mansion off the coast of Devon by the mysterious U.N.Owen. He wasn't able to look 100 years ahead and think, and how will this all read when the world is quite changed? But I don't think that makes some of his thinking any less ugly or unattractive, I also think it's unfair retroactively to pillory Conrad for these problems: he was an angry, difficult man fighting to get people to think about (and do stuff about?) what was going on, when (pretty much) everyone else was doing nothing.
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I think if you read HoD now, in light of the actual unfolding events, it full of unaddressed problems (and therefore by no means the 'timeless' work it's sometimes held up as. HoD I think is a classic example of a novel being dated by events since publication - it came out in 1902, while the Belgian genocide in the Congo was still in process, and was sorta kinda an angry advance warning abt same (which Conrad knew abt and was appalled - stronger word needed really - by)ĭan is right, that the trope used - intended to shock and upset and get stuff going - was "You know this civilising mission, where we go in and make things nice for them, well we're as bad as them": well actually hey "we" turned out to be capable of a lot worse than "them" (where "them" is indeed an evil cartoon rather than a reality), but this fact was really pretty indigestible among the respectable European (and American) reading public till after WW1, when it was kind of hard to ignore. I can't see an audience disposed to read Conrad being put off by the older name, and as it's more ingrained in the story it would be harder to move/translate.Ĭoincidence or something more s*n*ster - NoN is the only Conrad boook not digitised on Project Gutenberg. (I imagine most ppl here only knew the "indians" variation as a kid and found out about the change in the Christie book much later on if at all) XPOST, what Mark said about the film bersetzungen fr den Begriff And Then There Were None Agatha Christie former UK title Ten Little Niggers former US title Ten Little Indians im. still racist, but a much less problematic word. I guess the christie estate thought it relatively unproblematic changing the title as there are probably many variations in the rhyme even at the time, and it would be less offensive for the newer audience it needed to reach in later time. Urn:oclc:9883209 Scandate 20101006033141 Scanner the conrad, James Wait (the nigger in question) is key to the way the characters behave and the general plot, whereas in the Christie, the niggers in question are not actually characers, it's just from a rhyme to symbolise the slow bumping off of characters. The story is set on the coast of Devon, England during the thirties. Written by Agatha Christie, it was published in 1939 as a fiction murder mystery. 1989 saw another US film, Ten Little Indians, directed by Alan Birkinshaw. OL472814W Page-progression lr Pages 184 Ppi 400 Related-external-id urn:isbn:8723003235 Ten Little Indians, published as And Then There Were None when it débuted in America brought a wonderful sense of mystery into the life of the American. Ten strangers are invited to Soldier Island, an isolated rock near the Devon. Urn:oclc:record:1036891650 Extramarc OhioLINK Library Catalog Foldoutcount 0 Identifier tenlittleindians00chri Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t6tx43n2f Isbn 0671552228ĩ780671552220 Ocr ABBYY FineReader 8.0 Openlibrary_edition Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 16:32:04 Boxid IA127715 Boxid_2 CH112901 Camera Canon 5D City New York Donor This film is black and white is interesting locked room mystery, loosely based on the classic Christie novel.