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Die Lingard-Trilogie Reihe

Begeben Sie sich auf eine fesselnde maritime Abenteuerserie, die sich tiefgründig mit Themen wie Liebe und Opferbereitschaft auf den herausfordernden Meeren auseinandersetzt. Inspiriert von realen Erlebnissen tauchen diese Geschichten die Leser in die Komplexität menschlicher Beziehungen und moralischer Zwickmühlen ein, denen man fernab der Küste begegnet. Die Erzählung verwebt gekonnt die physischen Gefahren der Seefahrt mit den emotionalen Tiefen persönlicher Verbindungen und bietet einen reichen Teppich aus Romantik und Widerstandsfähigkeit vor der Kulisse des Ozeans.

An Outcast of the Islands
Mod Lib Almayer's Folly

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    An Outcast of the Islands

    • 296 Seiten
    • 11 Lesestunden
    3,8(4)Abgeben

    The only annotated edition available, An Outcast of the Islands (1896), Conrad's second novel, is a tale of intrigue in an eastern setting. Peter Willems, a clerk in Macassar, granted a "second chance" at a remote river trading post, falls ever more hopelessly into traps set by himself andothers. A parable of human frailty, with love and death the major players, this is a story of a man unable to understand others and fated never to possess his own soul.

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    Mod Lib Almayer's Folly

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    Almayer’s Folly , Joseph Conrad’s first novel, is a tale of personal tragedy as well as a broader meditation on the evils of colonialism. Set in the lush jungle of Borneo in the late 1800s, it tells of the Dutch merchant Kaspar Almayer, whose dreams of riches for his beloved daughter, Nina, collapse under the weight of his own greed and prejudice. Nadine Gordimer writes in her Introduction, “Conrad’s writing is lifelong questioning . . . What was ‘ Almayer’s Folly ’? The pretentious house never lived in? His obsession with gold? His obsessive love for his daughter, whose progenitors, the Malay race, he despised? All three?” Conrad established in Almayer’s Folly the themes of betrayal, isolation, and colonialism that he would explore throughout the rest of his life and work.

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