The Rescue a Romance of the Shallows by Joseph Conrad
Author | : Joseph Conrad |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 520 |
Release | : 2018-03-04 |
ISBN-10 | : 1986164055 |
ISBN-13 | : 9781986164054 |
Rating | : 4/5 (55 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: The Rescue, A Romance of the Shallows (1920) is one of Joseph Conrad's works contained in what is now sometimes called the Lingard Trilogy, a group of novels based on Conrad's experience as mate on the steamer Vidar. Although it was the last of the three novels to be published, after Almayer's Folly (1895) and An Outcast of the Islands (1896), the events related in the novel precede those. The story follows Captain Tom Lingard, the recurring protagonist of The Lingard Trilogy, who was on his way to help a native friend regain his land when he falls in love with a married woman whose yacht he saves from foundering.