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Chance: A Tale in Two Parts
de CONRAD, Joseph
- Usado
- very good
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Very Good
- Librería
-
Gloucester City, New Jersey, United States
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Sobre este artículo
Toronto: Bell & Cockburn, 1913. Hardcover. Very Good. First Canadian edition. Date taken from ads in rear. 406, 31(ads) pp. Green cloth, spine stamped in gilt. Owner name and inked price on front fly with modest scattered foxing on pages, edgeworn with short tears along the joints, gutter at pages 30-31 of ads neatly strengthened, about very good. One of 315 copies. The first of Conrad's novels with a strong emphasis on a female protagonist and considered to be his biggest commercial success.
Sinopsis
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'.
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Detalles
- Librería
- Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 541355
- Título
- Chance: A Tale in Two Parts
- Autor
- CONRAD, Joseph
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Editorial
- Bell & Cockburn
- Lugar de publicación
- Toronto
- Fecha de publicación
- 1913
- Palabras clave
- Women, EnglishLiterature
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
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- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- Cloth
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