An Outcast of the Islands de Joseph Conrad

An Outcast of the Islands

Joseph Conrad

An Outcast of the Islands is the second novel by Joseph Conrad, published in 1896, inspired by Conrad's experience as mate of a steamer, the Vidar.
The novel details the undoing of Peter Willems, a disreputable, immoral man who, on the run from a scandal in Makassar, finds refuge in a hidden native village, only to betray his benefactors over lust for the tribal chief's daughter. The story features Conrad's recurring character Tom Lingard, who also appears in Almayer's Folly (1895) and The Rescue (1920), in addition to sharing other characters with those novels. It is considered to be underrated as a work of literature for many. Conrad romanticizes the jungle environment and its inhabitants in a similar style to his Heart of Darkness.
This novel was adapted into the film Outcast of the Islands in 1951 by director Carol Reed, featuring Trevor Howard as Willems, Ralph Richardson as Lingard, Robert Morley, and Wendy Hiller.
The work was quoted in T. S. Eliot's The Hollow Men ('Life is very long.'). (wikipedia.org)

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117^.94 lei 3-5 săpt.

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162^.96 lei 3-5 săpt.

NuVision Publications – 15 apr 2010

108^.45 lei 38-44 zile

True Sign Publishing House – 15 feb 2023

112^.40 lei 6-8 săpt.

Echo Library – 29 feb 2008

115^.42 lei 38-44 zile

Bibliotech Press – 7 ian 2020

119^.54 lei 6-8 săpt.

TREDITION CLASSICS – 31 oct 2011

183^.76 lei 6-8 săpt.

Echo Library – 30 noi 2005

264^.51 lei 38-44 zile

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207^.12 lei 6-8 săpt.

Outlook Verlag – 19 sep 2018

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Cambridge University Press – 27 apr 2016

772^.40 lei 3-5 săpt.

Bibliotech Press – 6 ian 2020

207^.12 lei 6-8 săpt.

Notă biografică

Joseph Conrad (born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski; 3 December 1857 - 3 August 1924) was a Polish-British writer regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language. Though he did not speak English fluently until his twenties, he was a master prose stylist who brought a non-English sensibility into English literature. Conrad wrote stories and novels, many with a nautical setting, that depict trials of the human spirit in the midst of what he saw as an impassive, inscrutable universe. Conrad is considered an early modernist, though his works contain elements of 19th-century realism. His narrative style and anti-heroic characters have influenced numerous authors, and many films have been adapted from, or inspired by, his works. Numerous writers and critics have commented that Conrad's fictional works, written largely in the first two decades of the 20th century, seem to have anticipated later world events. Writing near the peak of the British Empire, Conrad drew, among other things, on his native Poland's national experiences and on his own experiences in the French and British merchant navies, to create short stories and novels that reflect aspects of a European-dominated world-including imperialism and colonialism-and that profoundly explore the human psyche.