The Rescue, A Romance of the Shallows

Description

The Rescue, A Romance of the Shallows is one of Joseph Conrad's works contained in The Lingard Trilogy, a group of novels based on Conrad's experience as mate on the steamer Vidar. Although it was the last of the three novels to be published, after Almayer's Folly (1895) and An Outcast of the Islands (1896), the events related in the novel precede those. The story follows Captain Tom Lingard, the recurring protagonist of The Lingard Trilogy, who was on his way to help a native friend regain his land when he falls in love with a married woman whose yacht he saves from foundering.

This book has 385 pages in the PDF version, and was originally published in 1920.

Production notes: This ebook of The Rescue, A Romance of the Shallows was published by Global Grey in 2018.