An Outcast of the Islands

ISBN-13: 9781544601724 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 276 str.

Joseph Conrad

Opis

-An Outcast of the Islands- is my second novel in the absolute sense of the word; second in conception, second in execution, second as it were in its essence. There was no hesitation, half-formed plan, vague idea, or the vaguest reverie of anything else between it and -Almayer's Folly.- The only doubt I suffered from, after the publication of -Almayer's Folly, - was whether I should write another line for print. Those days, now grown so dim, had their poignant moments. Neither in my mind nor in my heart had I then given up the sea. In truth I was clinging to it desperately, all the more desperately because, against my will, I could not help feeling that there was something changed in my relation to it.