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2) Chance
Author
Publisher
Doubleday, Page & company
Pub. Date
1913
Physical Desc
468 p. 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Love story complicated by mutual misunderstanding.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday, Page & Company
Pub. Date
1915
Physical Desc
340 p.
Language
English
Description
This is an exciting, atmospheric work that works on several levels: partly a story of tropical adventures, partly a melodramatic novel, partly a psychological thriller, partly a criticism of the empire. Axel Heist lives on an island in present-day Indonesia with a Chinese aide Wang. Heist visits a nearby island when a women's group plays in a hotel owned by Mr. Schomberg. Schomberg tries to impose himself sexually on one of the band members, Alma,...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday, Page & company
Pub. Date
1925
Physical Desc
4 p. l., 274 p., 1 l. 22 1/2 cm.
Language
English
Description
Conrad's last novel set in Genoa in early 1815. This is the story of Cosmo Latham, an Englishman and veteran of the late war against Napoleon, looking to see what he was unable to see earlier and perhaps even get a glimpse of the Emperor himself. But when he finds a girl from his youth, he finds that his emotions can get the better of him.