The Nigger of the 'Narcissus' and Other Stories (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780141441702)

Gail Fraser, author of The Lumby Lines, Stealing Lumby, and Lumby's Bounty, continues to work full-time on her acclaimed series about the extraordinary town of Lumby. She and her husband, artist Art Poulin, live with their beloved animals on Lazy Goose Farm in rural upstate New York. When not writing, Gail tends to their garden, orchard, and beehives.

Allan H. Simmons is a professor of modern and 20th-century literature at St. Mary's University, Twickenham, in London, and is a leading authority on the works of Joseph Conrad. He has coedited several volumes on Conrad, and was appointed co-General Editor of The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Joseph Conrad with Dr. J. H. Stape in 2008.

J. H. Stape is a research fellow at St. Mary's University, Twickenham, in London, and a recognized authority on the works of Joseph Conrad. Along with being a coeditor of several volumes on Conrad, he was the general editor of Conrad for Penguin Books, to which he contributed an edition of Typhoon and Other Stories. Stape has taught at universities around the world and has also published about the works of E. M. Forster, William Golding, Thomas Hardy, and Virginia Woolf.