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Chance : A Tale in Two Parts by Joseph. Conrad (1993, Uk-B Format Paperback)

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For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines.

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Product Identifiers

PublisherPenguin Publishing Group

ISBN-100140186549

ISBN-139780140186543

eBay Product ID (ePID)48845

Product Key Features

Book TitleChance : a Tale in Two Parts

Number of Pages368 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicClassics, Literary

Publication Year1993

GenreFiction

AuthorJoseph. Conrad

Book SeriesClassic, 20th-Century, Penguin Ser.

FormatUk-B Format Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.8 in

Item Weight7.5 Oz

Item Length7.1 in

Item Width4.4 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN75-320055

Dewey Edition22

Grade FromTwelfth Grade

Grade ToUP

Dewey Decimal823/.9/12

Synopsis"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." For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators., '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'.

LC Classification NumberPR6005.O4