An Outcast of the Islands - Joseph Conrad - Books - - 9798695185430 - October 13, 2020
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Joseph Conrad
An Outcast of the Islands

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When he stepped off the straight and narrow path of his peculiar honesty, it was with an inward assertion of unflinching resolve to fall back again into the monotonous but safe stride of virtue as soon as his little excursion into the wayside quagmires had produced the desired effect. It was going to be a short episode-a sentence in brackets, so to speak-in the flowing tale of his life: a thing of no moment, to be done unwillingly, yet neatly, and to be quickly forgotten. He imagined that he could go on afterwards looking at the sunshine, enjoying the shade, breathing in the perfume of flowers in the small garden before his house. He fancied that nothing would be changed, that he would be able as heretofore to tyrannize good-humouredly over his half-caste wife, to notice with tender contempt his pale yellow child, to patronize loftily his dark-skinned brother-in-law, who loved pink neckties and wore patent-leather boots on his little feet, and was so humble before the white husband of the lucky sister.

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released October 13, 2020
ISBN13 9798695185430
Pages 272
Dimensions 140 × 216 × 14 mm   ·   317 g
Language English  

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