He longs to escape his violent life and settle down on a farm far away from the ocean and the violence he has known all his life. A single blow from his cudgel sent the man spinning off his. This edition of The Rover, established through modern textual scholarship, presents the novel in a form more authoritative than any so far printed Book Details The Rover Show full title By Joseph Conrad 3 / 5 ( 36 ratings ) About this ebook Peyrol is a Master-Gunner French Republican Navy and a pirate. Download stock image of The Rover, from the novel by Joseph Conrad. 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. It was first published in 1923, and adapted into the 1967 film of the same name. Explanatory notes illuminate literary and historical references and indicate Conrad's sources. It is the story of Jean Peyrol, an old and weary French sailor, who has retired to a farm near Toulon. The Rover is the last complete novel by Joseph Conrad, written between 19. The 'Introduction' situates the novel in Conrad's career and traces its sources and contemporary reception. 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. 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.
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