Sea

The Shadow Line: A Confession

by Joseph Conrad

A young captain takes his first command and discovers the sea does not care in the slightest about his authority or his nerves. Conrad wrote it soon after his own life nearly ended at sea, and the fear in it reads uncomfortably real. Command, this book insists, is mostly just fear you have agreed to hide competently.

The librarian

Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain text

Reading time

About 2 hr 40 min

Where to find it

On the Sea shelves

Edition

Project Gutenberg, eBook #451. In the public domain in the United States.