Joseph Conrad

An Outpost of Progress Joseph Conrad

An Outcast of the Islands is the second novel by Joseph Conrad, published in 1896, inspired by Conrad's experience as mate of a steamer, the Vidar. An Outpost of Progress" is a short story written in July 1896 by Joseph Conrad, drawing on his own experience in Congo. It was published in the magazine Cosmopolitan in 1897 and was later collected in Tales of Unrest in 1898.