num_pages: 352
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.
language: English
title: An Outcast of the Islands
titlecomplete: An Outcast of the Islands (Oxford World's Classics)
characters: Kaspar Almayer, Lakamba, Peter Willems, Tom Lingard, Babalatchi, Nina Almayer
genres: Fiction, Adventure, English Literature, British Literature, Polish Literature, Literature, Classics, Novels, 19th Century, Historical Fiction
ratings_count: 833
places: Malaysia
series: Lingard Trilogy
publisher: Oxford University Press