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The only annotated edition available, An Outcast of the Islands (1896), Conrad's second novel, is a tale of intrigue in an eastern setting. Peter Willems, a clerk in Macassar, granted a "second chance" at a remote river trading post, falls ever more hopelessly into traps set by himself andothers. A parable of human frailty, with love and death the major players, this is a story of a man unable to understand others and fated never to possess his own soul.
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An Outcast of the Islands, Joseph Conrad
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- 1975
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- Title
- An Outcast of the Islands
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Joseph Conrad
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Publisher
- 1975
- Format
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 0140040544
- ISBN13
- 9780140040548
- Category
- Adventure fiction
- Description
- The only annotated edition available, An Outcast of the Islands (1896), Conrad's second novel, is a tale of intrigue in an eastern setting. Peter Willems, a clerk in Macassar, granted a "second chance" at a remote river trading post, falls ever more hopelessly into traps set by himself andothers. A parable of human frailty, with love and death the major players, this is a story of a man unable to understand others and fated never to possess his own soul.