Websters paperbacks take advantage of the fact that classics are frequently assigned readings in English courses. By using a running English-to-French thesaurus at the bottom of each page, this edition of The Rescue by Joseph Conrad was edited for three audiences. The first includes French-speaking
The rescue: a romance of the shallows
โ Scribed by Joseph Conrad
- Book ID
- 100069813
- Publisher
- Dover Publications
- Year
- 2018
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 237 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0486827445
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โฆ Synopsis
"The book is absorbingly interesting: dramatic, subtle, fascinating with allurement." โ _The New York Times.
_ Captain Tom Lingard is on his way to help his friends, a Malay prince and princess, reclaim their stolen land when he gets distracted by a marooned yacht. Lingard feels obliged to help his fellow Europeans out of their plight -- and he's increasingly attracted to Edith Travers, the married woman on board -- but his rescue of the pleasure boat and its passengers plunges the captain deep into a dangerous vortex of local politics.
One of Conrad's less familiar tales, this powerfully intense novel provides atmospheric seafaring glimpses of the Malay Archipelago along with a suspenseful plot that builds to an explosive climax. The Rescue is chronologically the first in the author's Lingard trilogy, which includes Almayer's Folly and An Outcast of the Islands, although it appeared years later . Begun in 1896 and...
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