An outcast of the islands
By: Joseph Conrad ; edited with an introduction by J.H. Stape ; notes by Hans van Marle.
Contributors: Stape, J. H.; Marle, Hans van.
Edition: Rev. ed.
Series: Oxford world's classics; Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)
Publisher: Oxford University Press; Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 303
Subjects: Europeans -- Asia, Southeastern -- Fiction; Trading companies -- Fiction; Betrayal -- Fiction; Clerks -- Fiction; Lingard, Tom (Fictitious character) -- Fiction; Southeast Asia -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "Peter Willems, a clerk in Macassar, granted a s̀econd 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."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [xxvii]-xxx).