The Secret Sharer (Further Reading)

Further Reading

• Baines, Jocelyn. Joseph Conrad: A Critical Biography, McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1960.

  Baines provides a comprehensive overview of all of Conrad’s writings.

• Dowden, Wilfred S. Joseph Conrad: The Imaged Style, Vanderbilt University Press, 1970.

  Dowden explores how Conrad’s style differs in each of his major works.

• Gillon, Adam. Joseph Conrad: Rite of Passage, Twayne Publishers, 1982, pp. 153-159.

  Includes guides to each of Conrad’s major works.

• Graver, Lawrence. Conrad’s Short Fiction, University of California Press, 1969.

  Graver examines all of Conrad’s short fiction and claims that “The Secret Sharer” is a “widely acclaimed. . . psychological masterpiece and the subject of more fanciful interpretations than any of Conrad’s other stories.”

• Lothe, Jakob. “‘The Secret Sharer’: Economical Personal Narrative,” in Conrad’s Narrative Method, Clarendon Press, 1989, pp. 57-71.

  Contains a useful introduction to Conrad’s life and work as well as a carefully argued chapter on “The Secret Sharer.”