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Chance: A Tale In Two Parts

Chance: A Tale In Two Parts

Conrad, Joseph

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Literary Fiction

ISBN10: 1548121681
ISBN13: 9781548121686
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Jun 14 2017
Pages: 244
Weight: 0.73
Height: 0.51 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
Chance is narrated by Conrad's regular narrator, Charles Marlow, but is characterised by a complex, nested narrative in which different narrators take up the story at different points. The novel is also unusual among its author's works for its focus on a female character: the heroine, Flora de Barral. The narrators describe and attempt to interpret various episodes in the life of Miss de Barral, the daughter of a convicted swindler named Smith de Barral (though this character is famous in the world of the novel as a criminal, he may, at least at first, have been merely an incompetent banker). Miss de Barral leads a sheltered life while her father is prosperous, then must rely on the generosity of others, who resent her or have agendas for her, before she escapes by marrying one Captain Anthony. Much of the book involves the musing of the various narrators over what she and the Captain expected from this union, and what they actually got from it.

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