An outcast of the islands
By: by Joseph Conrad.
Publisher: T.F. Unwin
Published: 1896
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 391
Subjects: Europeans -- Asia, Southeastern -- Fiction; Trading companies -- Fiction; Betrayal -- Fiction; Clerks -- Fiction; Lingard, Tom (Fictitious character) -- Fiction; Southeast Asia -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Willems, a company clerk, betrays the trust of his employers and finds himself publicly shamed. Starting afresh in a trading post, he is ironically at the mercy of others' dishonesty. Recounts the psychological and physical sufferings and deterioration of Willems as he is left to his own devices on an isolated Malayan island.
Notes: Ehrsam, T.G.  Conrad, 2222