Chance: A Tale in Two Parts Tapa blanda - 2002

It is a mighty force that of mere chance, absolutely irresistible yet manifesting itself often in delicate forms such for instance as the charm, true or illusory, of a human being' In Flora de Barral, the slender, dreamy, morbidly charming daughter of a parvenu financier, Conrad creates his most complex heroine and one of his most unrelenting, but not unhopeful, novels of emotional isolation. Neglected by her bankrupt father and rejected by her governess, drifting into abstraction and despair, Flora takes refuge at sea on Captain Anthony's ship, where tragedy and her transformation begin. When published in 1913, Chance was an immediate success. Arnold Bennett wrote that 'this is a discouraging book for a writer because he damn well knows he can't write as well as this'; while an anonymous reviewer in Punch declared that 'the whole thing is much nearer wizardry than workmanship'.

Detalles

• Título Chance: A Tale in Two Parts
• Autor Joseph Conrad; Martin Ray (Editor)
• Encuadernación Tapa blanda
• Edición Revised edition
• Páginas 384
• Volúmenes 1
• Idioma ENG
• Editorial Oxford University Press, USA, Cary, North Carolina, U.S.A.
• Fecha de publicación October 18, 2002
• ISBN 9780192801746 / 0192801740
• Peso 0.56 libras (0.25 kg)
• Dimensiones 5 x 7.7 x 0.6 pulgadas (12.70 x 19.56 x 1.52 cm)
• Nivel de lectura 1020
• Library of Congress subjects Sea stories, Psychological fiction
• Número de catálogo de la Librería del Congreso de EEUU 2002728588
• Dewey Decimal Code FIC