The rover
Joseph Conrad ;
Edition 1
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Conrad, Joseph,author.1857-1924، نویسندهTitle and Author
The rover / Joseph Conrad ;Publication Details
آکسفورد New York : : Oxford University press,، 1992مPhysical Description
xli, 308 p. :؛ 18 cm.؛ map,.Subject
Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815Fiction
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(The world's Classics.؛ )Added Identifiers
Fachard, Alexandreeditor.، نویسنده .
Stape, J. H.editor.، نویسنده .
Stape, J. H.editor.، نویسنده .
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includes explanatory notes (p. 287-299) & glossary..includes bibliographical references [xxxv-xxvii]..
"Begun as a short story in October 1921, two months before Conrad's sixty-fourth birthday, The Rover (1923) turned out to be the writer's last completed novel. After a slow beginning plagued by bouts of ill-health, Conrad discovered, as had happened several times throughout his career, that his subject invited more expansive treatment. The short story about an ageing French seaman returning 'home' after a lifetime of adventure and vicissitude slowly evolved into a short novel, and then into a full-length one. Once Conrad got into his stride, he completed it rapidly, by dictation, between January and mid-July 1922. For it, he laid aside his work in hand, Suspense (1925), with which he was already encountering difficulties and which would remain unfinished upon his death. Escaping a troubled work that had been on his desk for some time in favour of a much smaller canvas must have had immediate appeal. It also promised a consolidation of effort: the new story draws upon roughly the same historical epoch as Suspense - the French Revolution and Napoleonic periods - eras that Conrad had read about widely and had already mined for his short stories 'The Duel' (1908) and 'The Warrior's Soul' (1917)"--.
