An Outcast of the Islands by Joseph Conrad

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An Outcast of the Islands

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"An Outcast of the Islands" is typical Conrad, both in its structure and content. The interpenetration of man and nature is constant. The novel is a dark journey, but a rewarding one. In it, Conrad sharpened his tools and forged his craft.

billyfantles | Sep 12, 2006 |

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1896

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When he stepped off the straight and narrow path of his peculiar honesty, it was with an inward assertion of unflinching resolve to fall back again into the monotonous but safe stride of virtue as soon as his little excursion into the wayside quagmires had produced the desired effect.

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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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