The only annotated edition available <strong>An Outcast of the Islands</strong> 1896Conrads second novel is a tale of intrigue in an eastern setting. PeterWille... » 

The only annotated edition available An Outcast of the Islands 1896Conrads second novel is a tale of intrigue in an eastern setting. PeterWillems a clerk in Macassar granted a second chance at a remote rivertrading 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 astory of a man unable to understand others and fated never to possess his ownsoul. «