Conrad’s first collection gathers five stories from the 1890s. A Malay chief haunted by a betrayal seeks a charm from English gun-runners in Karain; two incompetent Belgians fall apart at a remote African trading station in An Outpost of Progress; a Breton peasant family suffers in The Idiots; a London husband faces his wife’s flight in The Return; and The Lagoon was the first short story he wrote.
An Outpost of Progress anticipates Heart of Darkness, which makes this essential for Conrad readers. Download the free EPUB.