An outcast of the islands
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Published
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2009.
Format
Book
Edition
Revised edition, Reissue.
Physical Desc
303 pages ; 20 cm.
Status
Main Library - Adult
Fiction Conrad, J
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Fiction Conrad, J
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Published
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2009.
Edition
Revised edition, Reissue.
Language
English
Lexile measure
1020
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description
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. The pawn of Babalatchi, the one-eyed schemer of power politics, and of the rich Abdulla, who uses Willems to increase his own wealth, his fate is sealed by his lover, Aissa, and by Almayer, an embittered fellow countryman. An Outcast of the Islands (1896), Conrad's second novel, is a tale of intrigue in which love and death are the major players. It is a parable of human frailty -- the story of a man unable to understand others and fated never to possess his own soul. This revised edition uses the English first edition text and has a new chronology and bibliography. - Back cover.
Target Audience
1020L,Lexile
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