SOURCE: "Achievement without Success, III," in Joseph Conrad: A Critical Biography, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1960, pp. 346-78.
Baines was an English editor and critic. In the following excerpt from his Joseph Conrad: A Critical Biography, which has been acclaimed as the definitive study of Conrad, he argues that the text of "The Secret Sharer" does not support the often-proposed interpretation of Leggatt as a symbol for the narrator's unconscious desires.
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