The Rescue: A Novel

Joseph Conrad

Jul 2015 · Sold by HarperCollins

About this ebook

Captain Tom Lingard, en route to assist with recapturing a friend’s stolen land, is waylaid by a distress call from a yacht stranded at The Shore of Refuge. But when Lingard falls in love with Mrs. Travers, one of the yacht’s passengers, his attempts to help both those on the marooned boat and his friends come to a tragic end.

Although published last, The Rescue is chronologically the first title in Joseph Conrad’s Lingard Trilogy, preceding the events of Almayer’s Folly and An Outcast of the Islands.

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About the author

Polish author Joseph Conrad is considered to be one of the greatest English-language novelists, a remarkable achievement considering English was not his first language. Conrad’s literary works often featured a nautical setting, reflecting the influences of his early career in the Merchant Navy, and his depictions of the struggles of the human spirit in a cold, indifferent world are best exemplified in such seminal works as Heart of Darkness, Lord JimM, The Secret Agent, Nostromo, and Typhoon. Regarded as a forerunner of modernist literature, Conrad’s writing style and characters have influenced such distinguished writers as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, William S. Burroughs, Hunter S. Thompson, and George Orwell, among many others. Many of Conrad’s novels have been adapted for film, most notably Heart of Darkness, which served as the inspiration and foundation for Francis Ford Coppola’s 1979 film Apocalypse Now.