Lingard Trilogy Series

Embark on a captivating maritime adventure series that delves into profound themes of love and sacrifice amidst challenging seas. Drawing inspiration from real-life experiences, these stories immerse readers in the complexities of human relationships and moral quandaries faced far from shore. The narrative masterfully intertwines the physical perils of seafaring with the emotional depths of personal connections, offering a rich tapestry of romance and resilience against the backdrop of the ocean.

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An Outcast of the Islands
Joseph Conrad
296 pages
11 hours of reading
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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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Mod Lib Almayer's Folly
Joseph Conrad
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Almayer’s Folly , Joseph Conrad’s first novel, is a tale of personal tragedy as well as a broader meditation on the evils of colonialism. Set in the lush jungle of Borneo in the late 1800s, it tells of the Dutch merchant Kaspar Almayer, whose dreams of riches for his beloved daughter, Nina, collapse under the weight of his own greed and prejudice. Nadine Gordimer writes in her Introduction, “Conrad’s writing is lifelong questioning . . . What was ‘ Almayer’s Folly ’? The pretentious house never lived in? His obsession with gold? His obsessive love for his daughter, whose progenitors, the Malay race, he despised? All three?” Conrad established in Almayer’s Folly the themes of betrayal, isolation, and colonialism that he would explore throughout the rest of his life and work.

Recommended Reading Order

An Outcast of the Islands

Mod Lib Almayer's Folly