The Rescue
Joseph Conrad · 1920
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Description
The Rescue, published in 1920, had the longest birth of any Conrad novel: he began it in 1896 and set it aside for twenty years. It returns to Captain Lingard, the hero of his first books, in the Malay shallows.
A yacht with an English couple aboard grounds on the coast, and Lingard's plans for a native prince collide with his duty to rescue them. Love for the yacht's lady, Mrs. Travers, paralyzes the man of action at the critical hour. The novel completes the Lingard trilogy begun in the 1890s. Its long making shows, but its sea passages remain splendid.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Joseph Conrad |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 1920 |
| COLLECTION | BOOKS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 752325 |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | Public domain |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Project Gutenberg |