An Outcast of the Islands

By Joseph Conrad

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An Outcast of the Islands by Joseph Conrad centers around Peter, a poor boy who leaves his home for a better future and becomes the protégé of the wealthy captain, Tom Lingard.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Trajectory, Inc.
• Release date: Oct 1, 2014
• ISBN: 9781632097699

Joseph Conrad

Polish author Joseph Conrad is considered to be one of the greatest English-language novelists, a remarkable achievement considering English was not his first language. Conrad’s literary works often featured a nautical setting, reflecting the influences of his early career in the Merchant Navy, and his depictions of the struggles of the human spirit in a cold, indifferent world are best exemplified in such seminal works as Heart of Darkness, Lord JimM, The Secret Agent, Nostromo, and Typhoon. Regarded as a forerunner of modernist literature, Conrad’s writing style and characters have influenced such distinguished writers as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, William S. Burroughs, Hunter S. Thompson, and George Orwell, among many others. Many of Conrad’s novels have been adapted for film, most notably Heart of Darkness, which served as the inspiration and foundation for Francis Ford Coppola’s 1979 film Apocalypse Now.

Reviews for An Outcast of the Islands

[m.belljackson · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

Lingard vs Willems: a latter day Spy vs Spy.If I didn't know that HEART OF DARKNESS was next up on DailyLit.com, this would be the all time most depressing Conrad novel.The plot goes through multitudinous convolutions involving a cast of thoroughly mostly unfathomable and unlikable characters.The incredible depictions of nature, notably the river, redeem the book from obscurity, as well the (unintended?) humorin awaiting the arrival of Willems wife.

[steve6clason · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

A prequel (though they didn't have the term yet) to Conrad's first, Almayer's Folly, with the same setting and many of the same characters and with the same murky, ambiguous conflict -- racial and sexual with some general-purpose lust and a few Daddy issues rolled in -- this one doesn't quite make it up to the level of the first, to my eye.Not that it was bad, there just wasn't enough plot to keep things moving and the location, so foreign in the first, was now well-known territory and so incapable of holding my attention.Worth reading, but if I was going to recommend one Conrad book this wouldn't be it.