Chance - A Tale in Two Parts de Joseph Conrad

Chance - A Tale in Two Parts

Joseph Conrad

en Limba Engleză Paperback – 14 mar 2007

This book contains the novel that brought Joseph Conrad success after nearly twenty years as a struggling writer. 'Chance' tells the story of Flora de Barrel, a girl who is abandoned by her tycoon father and who struggles and strives in the search of happiness and dignity. The first of Conrad's works to have a happy ending, this heart-warming tale will appeal to those who like inspirational and of feel-good literature, and it is a veritable must-have for fans and collectors of Conrad's work. The chapters of this book include: 'Young Powell and his Chance', 'The Fynes and The Girl-Friend', 'Thrift - And the Child', 'The Governess', 'The Tea Party', 'Flora', and 'On the Pavement'. Many antiquarian books such as this are increasingly rare and expensive, and it is with this in mind hat we are republishing this book now in an affordable, modern edition complete with a new prefatory biography of the author

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Joseph Conrad (3 December 1857 - 3 August 1924) was a Polish-British writer regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language. Though he did not speak English fluently until his twenties, he was a master prose stylist who brought a non-English sensibility into English literature Conrad wrote stories and novels, many with a nautical setting, that depict trials of the human spirit in the midst of what he saw as an impassive, inscrutable universe Conrad is considered an early modernist, though his works contain elements of 19th-century realism. His narrative style and anti-heroic characters have influenced numerous authors, and many films have been adapted from, or inspired by, his works. Numerous writers and critics have commented that Conrad's fictional works, written largely in the first two decades of the 20th century, seem to have anticipated later world events. Writing near the peak of the British Empire, Conrad drew, among other things, on his native Poland's national experiences and on his own experiences in the French and British merchant navies, to create short stories and novels that reflect aspects of a European-dominated world-including imperialism and colonialism-and that profoundly explore the human psyche.