Chance : a tale in two parts / Joseph Conrad ; edited with an introduction and notes by Martin Ray.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924.

Contributor:

Ray, Martin.

Series:

Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)

Oxford world's classics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Young women--Fiction.

Young women.

Children of prisoners--Fiction.

Children of prisoners.

Fathers and daughters--Fiction.

Fathers and daughters.

Ship captains' spouses--Fiction.

Ship captains' spouses.

Genre:

Fiction.

Psychological fiction.

Love stories.

Sea stories.

Physical Description:

xxxv, 347 pages ; 20 cm.

Edition:

Revised edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.

Summary:

Chance(1914) was the first of Conrad's novels to bring him popular success and it holds a unique place among his works. It tells the story of Flora de Barral, a vulnerable and abandoned young girl who is "like a beggar, without a right to anything but compassion." After her bankrupt father is imprisoned, she learns the harsh fact that a woman in her position "has no resources but in herself." Her only means of action is to be what she is. Flora's long struggle to achieve some dignity and happiness makes her Conrad's most moving female character. Reflecting the contemporary interest in the New Woman and the Suffragette question, Chance also marks the final appearance of Marlow, Conrad's most effective and wise narrator. This revised edition uses the English first edition text and has a new chronology and bibliography.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [xxiii]-xxvii).

ISBN:

0192801740

OCLC:

50270758