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About The Rover by Joseph Conrad "The Rover" by Joseph Conrad unfolds an enthralling maritime tale set against the turbulent backdrop of post-revolutionary France. Captain Peyrol, the enigmatic seafarer known as "The Rover," seeks refuge in a coastal inn, haunted by a past that... Read Full Overview

After entering at break of day the inner roadstead of the Port of Toulon, exchanging several loud hails with one of the guardboats of the Fleet, which directed him where he was to take up his berth, Master-Gunner Peyrol let go the anchor of the sea-worn and battered ship in his... Read Full Overview

The Rover is the last complete novel by Joseph Conrad, written between 1921 and 1922. It was first published in 1923, and adapted into the 1967 film of the same namePlot summaryThe story takes place in the south of France, against the backdrop of the French Revolution, Napoleon's... Read Full Overview

Joseph Conrad's last completed novel is a masterpiece of narrative tension and psychological insight. Set in the late eighteenth century and centred around the morally ambiguous figure of Captain Peyrot--a seafarer returning to France in the wake of the revolutionary Terror--... Read Full Overview

A nautical psychological thriller from one of literature's giants, "The Rover" is the story of a French pirate from the Indian seas during the opening days of the Napoleonic wars.

Peyrol is a Master-Gunner French Republican Navy and a pirate. 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. This struggle for freedom and peace plays out against the backdrop of the French Revolution... Read Full Overview

Peyrol is a Master-Gunner French Republican Navy and a pirate. 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. This struggle for freedom and peace plays out against the backdrop of the French Revolution... Read Full Overview

The Rover is a novel by Joseph Conrad is a Historical fiction book. Set during the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars, The Rover tells the story of Peyrol, a seasoned sailor and privateer who seeks refuge in a secluded farmhouse near Toulon, France. After a life of tumultuous... Read Full Overview

"El Pirata" es un poema que explora el deseo de libertad y la relaci n del ser humano con la muerte a trav s de la met fora del mar. El narrador expresa su rechazo a las convenciones funerarias tradicionales, como las tumbas, las cruces y las l grimas, y en su lugar, desea ser... Read Full Overview

As the Revolution rages in France, a seafarer named Peyrol, a master-gunner in the French republican navy, pirate, and for nearly fifty years "rover of the outer seas," comes to the end of a lifetime lived on the seas and seeks refuge in a remote farmhouse on the French Riviera... Read Full Overview

The Rover is the last complete novel by Joseph Conrad, written between 1921 and 1922. It was first published in 1923, and adapted into the 1967 film of the same name. The story takes place in the south of France, against the backdrop of the French Revolution, Napoleon's rise... Read Full Overview