The Secret Sharer
1909 story by Joseph Conrad
Press Enter · cited answer in seconds
0 sources
Summary
The Secret Sharer is a literary work[1]. It ranks in the top 4% of literary work entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (574 views/month).[2]
Key Facts
- Author: Joseph Conrad[3]
- Genre: nautical fiction[4]
- Followed by: Under Western Eyes[5]
- Language of work or name: British English[6]
- Publication date: 1912[7]
- Has edition or translation: The Secret Sharer[8]
- Published in: Twixt Land and Sea[9], Harper's Magazine[10]
- Title: The Secret Sharer[11]
- Different from: The Secret Sharer[12]
- First line: On my right hand there were lines of fishing stakes resembling a mysterious system of half-submerged bamboo fences, incomprehensible in its division of the domain of tropical fishes, and crazy of aspect as if abandoned forever by some nomad tribe of fishermen now gone to the other end of the ocean; for there was no sign of human habitation as far as the eye could reach.[13]
- Last line: Walking to the taffrail, I was in time to make out, on the very edge of a darkness thrown by a towering black mass like the very gateway of Erebus—yes, I was in time to catch an evanescent glimpse of my white hat left behind to mark the spot where the secret sharer of my cabin and of my thoughts, as though he were my second self, had lowered himself into the water to take his punishment: a free man, a proud swimmer striking out for a new destiny.[14]
- Derivative work: Secret Sharer[15]
- Copyright status: public domain[16]
- Form of creative work: novel[17]
Why It Matters
The Secret Sharer has Wikipedia articles in 5 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[18] It is known by 9 alternative names across languages and contexts.[19]