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How is this book unique? Font adjustments & biography included Unabridged (100% Original content) Illustrated About The Duel by Joseph Conrad The Duel by Joseph Conrad is Conrad's brilliantly ironic tale about two officers in Napoleon's Grand Army who, under a futile pretext,... Read Full Overview

Napole n I, cuya carrera militar tuvo las caracter sticas de un duelo contra toda Europa, desaprobaba los duelos entre los oficiales de su ej rcito. El gran emperador militar no era nig n espadach n y sent a poco respeto por la tradici n. A pesar de eso, una historia de duelo,... Read Full Overview

A tale of two officers in the French Army who fought a series of of duels in the midst of the Napoleonic wars.

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Specifications: Cover Finish: GLOSSY Dimensions: 5,25" x 8" (13,34 x 20,32 cm)Interior: White Paper Pages:... Read Full Overview

The Duel by Joseph Conrad , 1908. Joseph Conrad (1857 - 1924) was a Polish-British writer regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language.He joined the British merchant marine in 1878, and was granted British nationality in 1886. Though he did not speak... Read Full Overview

We are happy to announce this classic book. Many of the books in our collection have not been published for decades and are therefore not broadly available to the readers. Our goal is to access the very large literary repository of general public books. The main contents of our... Read Full Overview

Also published as The Duel, Joseph Conrad's 1908 short novel The Point of Honor was adapted to film as the elegant The Duellists, Ridley Scott's 1977 film debut. Fans of the film will find Joseph Conrad's book a bit softer, but no less entertaining, than... Read Full Overview

Complete and unabridged paperback edition.

First published in 1908.

Joseph Conrad was a Polish-British writer regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language. Though he did not speak English fluently until his twenties, he was a master prose stylist who brought a non-English sensibility into English literature. Conrad... Read Full Overview

Joseph Conrad was a Polish-British writer regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language. Though he did not speak English fluently until his twenties, he was a master prose stylist who brought a non-English sensibility into English literature. Conrad... Read Full Overview

Lieutenant Armand D'Hubert calls at the house where Lieutenant Ferand is billeted in Strasbourg, in search of information on his whereabouts. Ferand has risen early, fought a duel with a civilian and injured him, then gone out to call on a woman who holds a salon. D'Hubert goes... Read Full Overview

The duel is one of the most fascinating short novels by Joseph Conrad. With the Napoleonic wars as the romantic background of this story, it is narrated in the contest filed by two officers from different regiments of hussars throughout their respective military careers, whose... Read Full Overview

El duelo es una de las m s fascinantes novelas cortas de Joseph Conrad. Con las guerras napole nicas como fondo rom ntico de esta historia, se narra en ella la contienda entablada por dos oficiales de distintos regimientos de h sares a lo largo de sus respectivas carreras militares,... Read Full Overview

El duelo es una de las m s fascinantes novelas cortas de Joseph Conrad. Con las guerras napole nicas como fondo rom ntico de esta historia, se narra en ella la contienda entablada por dos oficiales de distintos regimientos de h sares a lo largo de sus respectivas carreras militares,... Read Full Overview