Humiliated and Insulted

Brings together a novelette, a novel, short stories, and an article on Conan Doyle’s experiences as a ship’s surgeon reproduced from the pages of The Strand Magazine

Contains the novels Lord Jim, Nostromo and The Secret Agent, together with a selection of Conrad’s superb short stories.

The practices of Dr. Wilbur Larch–obstetrician, orphanage director, ether addict, and abortionist–are hindered, abetted, and continued, in turn, by his favorite orphan, Homer Wells