An Outcast of the Islands

by Joseph Conrad, J.H. Stape, Hans Marle

Overview

AN OUTCAST OF THE ISLANDS is the story of a self deluded South Seas trader who, for reasons that are as false as his own self-assessment, marries a Malay woman. Ostracized by his own society, in time he earns the contempt of the natives. Hence, he truly becomes "an outcast of the islands."

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780191504532
Publisher:	OUP Oxford
Publication date:	02/26/2009
Series:	Oxford World's Classics Series
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Allan H. Simmons is Professor of English Literature at St Mary's University, Twickenham, and is the author of Joseph Conrad (2006) and Conrad's Heart of Darkness (2007). He has edited Conrad in Context (2009) and Joseph Conrad: The Contemporary Reviews, Volume 1 (2012), and co-edited Lord Jim and The Nigger of the 'Narcissus' and Other Stories (2007). He is also the General Editor of The Conradian: The Journal of the Joseph Conrad Society (UK).

Date of Birth:

December 3, 1857

Date of Death:

August 3, 1924

Place of Birth:

Berdiczew, Podolia, Russia

Place of Death:

Bishopsbourne, Kent, England

Education:

Tutored in Switzerland. Self-taught in classical literature. Attended maritime school in Marseilles, France

Table of Contents

General editors' preface; Chronology; Abbreviations and note on editions; Introduction; An Outcast of the Islands; The texts: an essay; Apparatus; Textual notes; Appendices; Explanatory notes; Glossaries; Map.

Editorial Reviews

'… Allan H. Simmons, in his edition of An Outcast of the Islands, clearly and efficiently presents the history of the text, including the likely provenance of the printer’s copy of Doubleday’s collected edition of 1920.' Dale Kramer, Joseph Conrad Today

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