{"product_id":"the-rescue-9780486820224","title":"The Rescue","description":"The book is absorbingly interesting: dramatic, subtle, fascinating with allurement. ― \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eCaptain Tom Lingard is on his way to help his friends, a Malay prince and princess, reclaim their stolen land when he gets distracted by a marooned yacht. Lingard feels obliged to help his fellow Europeans out of their plight -- and he's increasingly attracted to Edith Travers, the married woman on board -- but his rescue of the pleasure boat and its passengers plunges the captain deep into a dangerous vortex of local politics.\u003cbr\u003eOne of Conrad's less familiar tales, this powerfully intense novel provides atmospheric seafaring glimpses of the Malay Archipelago along with a suspenseful plot that builds to an explosive climax. \u003ci\u003eThe Rescue\u003c\/i\u003e is chronologically the first in the author's Lingard trilogy, which includes \u003ci\u003eAlmayer's Folly \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e An Outcast of the Islands, \u003c\/i\u003ealthough it appeared years later\u003ci\u003e.\u003c\/i\u003e Begun in 1896 and published in 1920, just four years before Conrad's death, the novel adds resonance to Conrad's other works on colonialism and imperialism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Dover Publications\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/16\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780486820224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 400\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 5.00w x 1.00d","brand":"Joseph Conrad","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36637948412060,"sku":"9780486820224","price":5.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_7959fe50-26ef-4066-bba8-467d4844942a.jpg?v=1603846071","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-rescue-9780486820224","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}