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La Trilogia Lingard Serie

Intraprendete un'avvincente serie di avventure marittime che approfondisce temi profondi come l'amore e il sacrificio in mari impegnativi. Ispirate da esperienze di vita reale, queste storie immergono i lettori nelle complessità delle relazioni umane e negli enigmi morali affrontati lontano dalla costa. La narrazione intreccia magistralmente i pericoli fisici della navigazione con le profondità emotive delle connessioni personali, offrendo un ricco arazzo di romanticismo e resilienza sullo sfondo dell'oceano.

An Outcast of the Islands
Mod Lib Almayer's Folly

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    An Outcast of the Islands

    • 296pagine
    • 11 ore di lettura
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    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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