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Chance : a tale in two parts / Joseph Conrad.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924.
- 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.
- Novels.
- Physical Description:
- 447 pages ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1950.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Notes:
- List of author's works on preliminary leaf.
- Publisher's device on t.p.
- OCLC:
- 8984216
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