Chance: A Tale in Two Parts (The ^AWorld's Classics)

Conrad, Joseph

ISBN 10: 0192817094 / ISBN 13: 9780192817099

Published by Oxford University Press, 1990

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Chance: A Tale in Two Parts (The ^AWorld's Classics)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication Date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0192817094
• ISBN 13: 9780192817099
• Binding: paperback
• Edition: 4th Edition
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Conrad's first commercial success after nearly twenty years as a writer, Chance tells the story of Flora de Barral, a vulnerable and abandoned young girl, and her long struggle to achieve some dignity and happiness.

About the Author

Joseph Conrad was a Polish novelist who lived most of his life in Britain and didn't learn English until age 21. The young Conrad lived an adventurous life involving gunrunning and political conspiracy, and apparently had a disastrous love affair that plunged him into despair. He served 16 years in the merchant navy.In 1894, at age 36, Conrad reluctantly gave up the sea, partly because of poor health and partly because he had decided on a literary career.