Set in the South of France during the waning days of the French Revolution and the early years of Napoleonic rule, The Rover (1923) is the last novel that Conrad completed in his lifetime. A popular success on its publication, it explores, against the backdrop of dramatic political change and the Anglo-French hostilities leading up to the Battle of Trafalgar, the themes of personal and national identity, loyalty and love. The 'Introduction' situates the novel in Conrad's career and traces its sources and contemporary ...
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Set in the South of France during the waning days of the French Revolution and the early years of Napoleonic rule, The Rover (1923) is the last novel that Conrad completed in his lifetime. A popular success on its publication, it explores, against the backdrop of dramatic political change and the Anglo-French hostilities leading up to the Battle of Trafalgar, the themes of personal and national identity, loyalty and love. The 'Introduction' situates the novel in Conrad's career and traces its sources and contemporary reception. Explanatory notes illuminate literary and historical references and indicate Conrad's sources. The essay on the text and the apparatus lay out the history of the work's composition and publication, detail the interventions in the text by Conrad's typists, compositors and editors and explain editorial policy. This edition of The Rover, established through modern textual scholarship, presents the novel in a form more authoritative than any so far printed.
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Good. No Jacket. Size: 17 to 19 cm tall (12mo); Previous owner's ink inscription. Hardcover Posted within 1 working day. 1st class tracked post to the UK, Airmail tracked worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging.
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1924. T. Fisher Unwin. Fourth Imp. Hard Cover. Book-Good, spine ends & corners worn, darkened spine, some discolouration on front & back boards, front & back hinges cracked, endpapers darkened & foxed, loose page. 8x5.5. 317pp.
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Good. No Dust Jacket Issued. 12mo-over 6¾-7¾" tall 317pp. Black cloth boards with gilt lettering. Light sunning to spine cloth. Both boards are very lightly bowed.
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Used-Good. Good Hardback (No dust jacket) 1st UK edition, in dark green cloth with dulled gilt lettering on front board; spine darkened, with pale lettering; cloth a little stained; softening at head & foot of spine. Binding tight. Letter dated 1923 stuck onto front free end paper; some scattered foxing.
The Rover is a classic by Joseph Conrad, set in post-revolutionary Toulon. It was one of the set books for University of London Board 'O'-level English Literature in 1966, which is when I first read the book. It's a short novel which took me all term to read because, at the time, I didn't get it! I reread a copy purchased from Alibris in 2 days because, now, I do get it! In 1966 I didn't realise that Conrad, back in 1923, was an englishman of the 'old colonialist' school who was just showing off his knowledge of french and France in an affected and pretentious way which is really irritating to read now that we are all much better travelled! Had I realised this, aged 15, I might have scored even worse than I did at O-level English!!
