Joseph Conrad Classics: The Rescue & Tales of Unrest

by Joseph Conrad

• This edition binds together two of Joseph Conrad's most popular works: The Rescue and Tales of Unrest.

The Rescue (Published 1920)
English adventurer Tom Lingard gets involved with Lady Edith and Mr. Travers, a sailing couple. While Tom and Edith are having an affair, her husband's boat is destroyed and he is killed. The Rescue is the conclusion of what is sometimes called "The Lingard Trilogy", three novels based on Conrad's experience as mate on the steamer, Vidar. While it is the last of the three novels to be published, events relate to those before Almayer's Folly (1895) and An Outcast of the Islands (1896).

Tales of Unrest (1898)
The first published collection of Joseph Conrad's short stories, Tales of Unrest appeared in 1898. The stories, most previously published in magazines, include: Karain: A Memory (Blackwood's, 1897); The Idiots (The Savoy, 1896); An Outpost of Progress (Cosmopolis, 1897) The Return (never previously published); and The Lagoon (Cornhill, 1897).

491 pages, Kindle Edition

First published November 15, 2013

About the author

Joseph Conrad was a Polish-British novelist and story writer. He is regarded as one of the greatest writers in the English language and, although he did not speak English fluently until his twenties, he became a master prose stylist who brought a non-English sensibility into English literature. He wrote novels and stories, many in nautical settings, that depict crises of human individuality in the midst of what he saw as an indifferent, inscrutable, and amoral world.
Conrad is considered a literary impressionist by some and an early modernist by others, though his works also contain elements of 19th-century realism. His narrative style and anti-heroic characters, as in Lord Jim, for example, have influenced numerous authors. Many dramatic films have been adapted from and inspired by his works. Numerous writers and critics have commented that his fictional works, written largely in the first two decades of the 20th century, seem to have anticipated later world events.
Writing near the peak of the British Empire, Conrad drew on the national experiences of his native Poland—during nearly all his life, parceled out among three occupying empires—and on his own experiences in the French and British merchant navies, to create short stories and novels that reflect aspects of a European-dominated world—including imperialism and colonialism—and that profoundly explore the human psyche.