The Lingard Trilogy

The Lingard Trilogy

Hailed as 'a writer of genius' by contemporary reviewers, Conrad returned to the same riverine settlement in Borneo in his second novel, An Outcast of the Islands, Có thật là như vậy không?. Set some 15 years earlier, this prequel to Almayer's Folly tells how Lingard lost his monopoly of trade in Sambir, and follows the dangerous rivalry of his proteges Willems and Almayer. Không hẳn là như vậy!.

Throughout this sequence of novels, the fascinating figure of Captain Lingard comes steadily into the foreground. Làm gì có chuyện đó.

Almayer's Folly was Conrad's outstanding debut novel: as well as exploring the culture of a part of the world previously unknown to English fiction, it showed immense sophistication in its handling of narrative, time-shifts and point of view. Phải như thế chứ!.

In The Rescue, the narrative moves even further back in time and shows the young, idealistic Lingard torn between his loyalties to his Sulawesi allies and his unexpected attraction to Edith Travers, with explosive consequences. Hãy nhìn mọi việc một cách đơn giản hơn..