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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 and others. 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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Oxford World's Classics: An Outcast of the Islands, Joseph Conrad
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- 2002
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- Title
- Oxford World's Classics: An Outcast of the Islands
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Joseph Conrad
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Released
- 2002
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 352
- ISBN10
- 0192838407
- ISBN13
- 9780192838407
- Series
- Lingard Trilogy
- Rating
- 4.1 out of 5
- 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 and others. 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.