The Rover: A Story of Napoleonic Times

by Joseph Conrad

Overview

Peyrol is a Master-Gunner French Republican Navy and a pirate. He longs to escape his violent life and settle down on a farm far away from the ocean and the violence he has known all his life. This struggle for freedom and peace plays out against the backdrop of the French Revolution and Napoleon’s rise to power. Peyrol must fight for redemption and dignity on this his final voyage. The Rover is the last completed novel by Joseph Conrad, written between 1921 and 1922.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9788835864172
Publisher:	Diamond Book Publishing
Publication date:	07/13/2020
Series:	Joseph Conrad Collection , #7
Sold by:	StreetLib SRL
Format:	eBook
Sales rank:	974,673
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Alexandre Fachard, Chargé d'enseignement suppléant at the Université de Genève, teaches English literature. He has edited Within the Tides (2012) and co-edited Victory (2016) for the Cambridge Edition of the Works of Joseph Conrad, and has written and reviewed for The Conradian, The Yearbook of Conrad Studies, Variants, The Literary Encyclopedia, American Studies Journal, the Journal of American Studies, Translation and Literature and Cahiers édouardiens et victoriens.

J. H. Stape was a Senior Research Fellow at St Mary's University College, London and taught at universities in England, Canada, France and the Far East. The author of The Several Lives of Joseph Conrad (2007) and editor of The Cambridge Companion to Joseph Conrad (Cambridge, 1996) and The New Cambridge Companion to Joseph Conrad (Cambridge, 2015), he edited and co-edited several volumes in the Cambridge Edition of the Works of Joseph Conrad, of which he was co-General Editor from 2008 to 2015. He also published on E. M. Forster, William Golding, Thomas Hardy, Frank Harris, Angus Wilson and Virginia Woolf.

Date of Birth:

December 3, 1857

Date of Death:

August 3, 1924

Place of Birth:

Berdiczew, Podolia, Russia

Place of Death:

Bishopsbourne, Kent, England

Education:

Tutored in Switzerland. Self-taught in classical literature. Attended maritime school in Marseilles, France

Table of Contents

List of illustrations; General Editors' Preface; Acknowledgements; Chronology; Abbreviations and Note on Editions; Introduction; The Rover; The texts: an essay; Apparatus; Textual notes; Appendices; Explanatory notes; Glossaries; Maps.

Editorial Reviews

"It is the subtilized past, through the aroma and the intuitive touches, which comes alive." (The Times Literary Supplement (London))

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