The text is the authoritative version used in the Collected Works published in 1921, which Conrad prepared from a I910 reprint of the original English version of 1898. Corrections and emendations have been made on the basis of a thorough collation of all extant versions of the novel. The text is annotated and is followed by a detailed textual appendix consisting of materials on the textual history and present text, a list of textual variants, a glossary of nautical terms, illustrations showing details essential to an understanding of the novel, and an essay written especially for this Norton Critical Edition by Denis Murphy, explaining the seamanship used during the storm in Chapter Three.

Preface

The Text of The Nigger of the "Narcissus"

　The Nigger of the "Narcissus"

　Textual Analysis

　　Textual History

　　Present Text

　　Textual Notes

　　Glossary of Nautical Terms

　　Illustrations

　　Dennis Murphy, Seamanship in Chapter Three of The Nigger of the "Narcissus"

　Backgrounds and Sources

　　Joseph Conrad, Preface to The Nigger of the "Narcissus"

　　Thomas Lavoie, Textual History and Textual Notes: The "Preface"

　　Ian Watt, Conrad's Preface to The Nigger of the "Narcissus"

　　Joseph Conrad, To My Readers in America

　　Edward Garnett, Letters from Joseph Conrad

　　Joseph Conrad, From His Correspondence

　　　To T. Fisher Unwin, October 19, 1896

　　　To Edward Garnett, October-November 1896

　　　To Edward Lancelot Sanderson, November 21, 1896

　　　To Edward Garnett, November-December 1896

　　　To T. Fisher Unwin, December 13, 1896

　　　To Edward Garnett, December 1896-January 1897

　　　To Helen Watson, January 27, 1897

　　　To Edward Lancelot Sanderson, January 27, 1897

　　　To Edward Garnett, February-March 1897

　　　To Edward Lancelot Sanderson, May 19, 1897

　　　To Edward Garnett, May-June 1897

　　　To Helen Watson, June 27, 1897

　　　To R.B. Cunninghame Graham, August 9, 1897

　　　To Edward Garnett, August-November 4, 1897

　　　To Mrs. Richard Garnett, November 4, 1897

　　　To Stephen Crane, November 1897

　　　To Edward Garnett, December 5, 1897

　　　To R.B. Cunninghame Graham, December 6-20, 1897

　　　From W.H. Chesson, January 13, 1898

　　　To W.H. Chesson, January 16, 1898

　　　To Henry Seidel Canby, April 7, 1924

　　Joseph Conrad, Stephen Crane

　　Joseph Conrad, [The Ship and the Seal]

　　Joseph Conrad, A Familiar Preface

　　G. Jean-Aubry, [Conrad on the Narcissus]

　　Gerald Morgan, The Book of the Ship Narcissus

Reviews and Criticism

　Contemporary Reviews

　　From the Daily Mail, December 7, 1897

　　From the Daily Telegraph, December 8, 1897

　　From the Glasgow Herald, December 9, 1897

　　From the Daily Chronicle, December 22, 1897

　　From the Spectator, December 25, 1897

　Criticism

　　Albert Guerard, The Nigger of the "Narcissus"

　　Ian Watt, Conrad Criticism and The Nigger of the "Narcissus"

　　Norris W. Yates, Social Comment in The Nigger of the "Narcissus"

　　Gerald Morgan, Narcissus Afloat

　　Donald T. Tochiana, The Nigger of the "Narcissus";: Myth, Mirror and Metropolis

　　John E. Saveson, Contemporary Psychology in The Nigger of the "Narcissus";

　　Sanford Pinsker, Selective Memory, Leisure, and the Language of Joseph Conrad’s The Nigger of the "Narcissus";

　　Robert Foulke, Postures of Belief in The Nigger of the "Narcissus";

　　William W. Bonney, Semantics and Structural Indeterminacy in The Nigger of the "Narcissus";: An Experiment in Reading

　　John Howard Weston, The Nigger of the "Narcissus"; and Its Preface

　　Paul L. Wiley, A Tale of Passion

　　Eugene B. Redmond, Racism, or Realism? Literary Apartheid, or Poetic License? Conrad’s Burden in The Nigger of the "Narcissus";

Selected Bibliography