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by Joseph Conrad

Secret Sharer study guide contains a biography of Joseph Conrad, literature essays, a complete e-text, quiz questions, major themes, characters, and a full summary and analysis.

An unnamed captain, reflecting on an experience that happened years ago, tells his readers of his first real command - when he was appointed to take a ship home to England, when the crisis of imitation into knowledge of his ship and his crew was complicated by an unforeseen partnership with an escaped criminal. The episode begins in the Gulf of Siam, just off the coast of Cambodia.

As a sailing ship awaits a favorable wind, darkness falls, and the captain surprises the crew by taking the anchor watch himself. As he strolls the silent deck in his sleeping-suit, his serene reverie is broken by his discovery that the rope side-ladder has not been hauled in. The captain is astonished to find that a naked swimmer is floating at the end of the…

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Posted By yien s #144161 at Jul 11, 2010 2:49 AM

the secret sharer

As the stories opens, what does the young captain feels?

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Posted By fatemeh k #110913 at Nov 02, 2009 9:54 AM

The scorpion

what is the significance of the scorpion found drowned in the ink?

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Posted By deeana g #172605 at Mar 06, 2011 12:55 PM

why does the captain say leggatt is like himself?

when the captain refers to leggatt as himself

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