An outcast of the islands ; : Almayer's folly, a story of an Eastern river
(2021)
Fiction
eBook
Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : Otbebookpublishing, 2021
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DESCRIPTION
1 online resource
ISBN/ISSN
9783985315079 (electronic bk.) MWT14622884, 3985315078 (electronic bk.) 14622884
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
An Outcast of the Islands is the second novel by Joseph Conrad, published in 1896, inspired by Conrad's experience as mate of a steamer, the Vidar. The novel details the undoing of Peter Willems, a disreputable, immoral man who, on the run from a scandal in Makassar, finds refuge in a hidden native village, only to betray his benefactors over lust for the tribal chief's daughter
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