• This edition binds together the so-called "Lingard Trilogy", Joseph Conrad's group of novels based on Conrad's experience as mate on the steamer, Vidar. Almayer's Folly (1895) Joseph Conrad's first novel Almayer's Folly, published in 1895, is set in the late 19th century. Dutch trader Kaspar Almayer, a white European, married to a native Malayan, builds a large house in anticipation of British occupation but it fails to materialise. The house remains unfinished and Dutch seamen nickname it “Almayer’s Folly.” An Outcast of the Islands (1896)Conrad’s second novel details the undoing of Peter Willems, an immoral man on the run who finds refuge in a hidden native village but betrays his benefactors over lust.The Rescue (1920) A romantic novel and the last of the three novels to be published but the timeline of the novel precedes Almayer's Folly and An Outcast of the Islands.
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• This edition binds together the so-called "Lingard Trilogy", Joseph Conrad's group of novels based on Conrad's experience as mate on the steamer, Vidar. Almayer's Folly (1895) Joseph Conrad's first novel Almayer's Folly, published in 1895, is set in the late 19th century. Dutch trader Kaspar Almayer, a white European, married to a native Malayan, builds a large house in anticipation of British occupation but it fails to materialise. The house remains unfinished and Dutch seamen nickname it “Almayer’s Folly.” An Outcast of the Islands (1896)Conrad’s second novel details the undoing of Peter Willems, an immoral man on the run who finds refuge in a hidden native village but betrays his benefactors over lust.The Rescue (1920) A romantic novel and the last of the three novels to be published but the timeline of the novel precedes Almayer's Folly and An Outcast of the Islands.