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The rover / by Joseph Conrad.
- Title
- The rover / by Joseph Conrad.
- Author
- Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924
- Publication
- London : T. Fisher Unwin Ltd., 1923.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | 21434.2.35.5 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 317 p.,; 20 cm.
- Summary
- In this novel Mr. Conrad has the Mediterranean, as seen from the French south coast, not for a stage, but for a background, in the depth of which the presence of the English blockading fleet is rather felt than seen throughout the course of events which happen on land in a lonely farm house. The narrative, intimate in character, deals with the crisis in the lives of two women and some men - the Rover being the central figure - and ends at sea in an episode in which the shapes of the blockading ships and the person of Lord Nelson himself are evoked for a moment. The tale, though in no sense historical, attempts to reflect in part at least the spirit of the period 1802-4, with references to an earlier time, after the evacuation of Toulon, when during the savage excesses of the Republican reaction the Heiress of Escampobar, when still almost a child, passed through experiences which had unsettled her mind.--Dust jacket.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Sea stories.
- Historical fiction
- Fiction
- Sea stories
- Sea fiction
- Novels
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- OCLC
- 1204098
- SCSB-12120437
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library