{"product_id":"9780486827445","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","brand":"Dover Publications","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47112507719920,"sku":"9780486827445","price":6.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780486827445_p0.jpg?v=1763709214","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780486827445","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}