An outcast of the islands / Joseph Conrad ; edited with an introduction by J. H. Stape ; notes by Hans van Marle.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924.

Contributor:

Stape, J. H. (John Henry)

Marle, Hans van.

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)

Oxford world's classics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Europeans--Southeast Asia--Fiction.

Europeans.

Clerks.

Southeast Asia--Fiction.

Southeast Asia.

Trading companies--Fiction.

Trading companies.

Betrayal--Fiction.

Betrayal.

Clerks--Fiction.

Genre:

Fiction.

Psychological fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xxxviii, 303 pages, 7 unnumbered pages : map ; 20 cm.

Edition:

[Revised edition].

Place of Publication:

[Oxford ;] [New York] : Oxford University Press, [2002]

Summary:

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.

Notes:

"First published as an Oxford World's Classics paperback 19972. This revised edition first published 2002."

Publisher's advertisements: [7] p. at end.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [xxvii]-xxx).

ISBN:

0192838407

OCLC:

49204627