Over a bad dinner at a Thames-side inn, a seaman recalls his first command in an Eastern river port. There he crossed Falk, the gloomy Scandinavian who owns the only tug, and found himself caught up in Falk’s courtship of a German captain’s niece, a courtship stalled by a secret from Falk’s past at sea.
A dark, ironic Conrad novella about hunger, survival and love, published in 1903. Download the free EPUB.