Article: A sample contrastive analysis of "The Blue Hotel" by Stephen Crane and "The Nigger of the 'Narcissus'" by Joseph Conrad.(Critical Essay)

The purpose of the present paper is to show the striking similarities between "The Blue Hotel" by Stephen Crane and "The Nigger of the 'Narcissus"' by Joseph Conrad. There seems to exist a close dialogue between the two stories, published over a short period of time, in the late 1898 and 1897 respectively.

The relationship between Crane and Conrad begins in October 1897, shortly before the two publications, when the first was introduced to the latter by S. S. Pawling of the publishing company of William Heinemann (Beer 1923). Conrad records that towards the evening they "parted with just a handshake and a goodnight" no more -- without making any arrangements for ...

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