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New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1896. Deluxe American edition. 335 pp. 8vo. Publishers half red roan over marbled boards, spine gilt, slightly shelfworn. Deluxe American edition. 335 pp. 8vo. "Because An Outcast of the Island was scheduled for inclusion in a family library series, it was decided, in the interest of propriety, to purge it of all descriptions, however innocent, of love making between Willems and Aissa" (Cagle). To ensure the continuity of narrative they supplied their own linking passages. Cagle 3; Keating 6

An Outcast of the Islands is a novel by Joseph Conrad, first published in 1896. The book follows the story of Peter Willems, a Dutch-Belgian tramp with a troubled past, who finds himself involved in treacherous local politics in a colonial setting.