Tales of Unrest

1. Karain, A Memory, 2. The Idiots, 3. An Outpost of Progress, 4. The Return, 5. The Lagoon. Of the five stories in this volume, "The Lagoon," the last in order, is the earliest in date. It is the first short story I ever wrote and marks, in a manner of speaking, the end of my first phase, the Malayan phase with its special subject and its verbal suggestions. Conceived in the same mood which produced "Almayer's Folly" and "An Outcast of the Islands," it is told in the same breath (with what...