"The were the everlasting children of the mysterious sea. Their successors are the grown-up children of a discontented earth. They are less naughty, but less innocent; less profane, but perhaps also less believing; and if they had learned how to speak they have also learned how to whine."
- Joseph Co

Un viaggio per nave da Bombay a Londra diventa per Conrad il mezzo per raccontare le dinamiche di una comunità, quella della ciurma e del suo capitano, perfettamente sovrapponibili a quelle della società in generale. Solidarietà, senso di appartenenza, diversità, indifferenza, violenza, desiderio di

Obviously the title alone puts it somewhat beyond the pale for a high school curriculum - even the reader with a broader experience of the evolution of racial attitudes is going to approach in hopes of a more progressive stance than s/he's likely to get.
The title character is a West Indian (St. Kitt

[Jan, 2017]
Children of the Sea
Bombay, un imprecisato anno del 1800. Sono già calate le prime ombre della sera quando James Wait, imponente negro delle Indie Occidentali, si imbarca sul Narcissus, che farà rotta per l’Inghilterra. «Udirono la sua voce risonante nell’ampio petto come se le parole roto

I confess that I read this as part of a "Typhoon and other Tales", but is was so awesome that I felt it deserved a rating all of it's own. It was so twisted and true how Conrad played out and expressed the actions, self interests, unspoken trusts, mistrusts, deceptions, and weaknesses of this crew o

Although Conrad is famous for his seafaring tales, I have generally preferred his books that are set mostly or wholly on land. This is my favorite of all of his seafaring tales that I have read so far; it is better for example in my opinion than Typhoon or The Shadow Line, which are both good storie