Chance : a tale in two parts / Joseph Conrad ; edited with an introduction by Martin Ray.
By: Conrad, Joseph.
Contributor(s): Ray, Martin
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Material type: 
BookSeries: World's classics.Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1988Description: [496] p. ; 19 cm.ISBN: 0192817094.Subject(s): Young women -- Fiction | Children of prisoners -- Fiction | Fathers and daughters -- Fiction | Ship captain's spousesDDC classification: 823.91 CON
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| General Lending | MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Store Item | 823.91 CON (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00062469 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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 isimprisoned, 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.
Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Introduction (p. vii)
- Note on the Text (p. xx)
- Select Bibliography (p. xxiii)
- A Chronology of Joseph Conrad (p. xxv)
- Author's Note (p. xxxi)
- Part I the Damsel (p. 1)
- Chapter 1 Young Powell and His Chance (p. 3)
- Chapter 2 the Fynes and the Girl-Friend (p. 35)
- Chapter 3 Thrift--And the Child (p. 67)
- Chapter 4 the Governess (p. 96)
- Chapter 5 the Tea-Party (p. 134)
- Chapter 6 Flora (p. 163)
- Chapter 7 on the Pavement (p. 196)
- Part II the Knight (p. 255)
- Chapter 1 the Ferndale (p. 257)
- Chapter 2 Young Powell Sees and Hears (p. 272)
- Chapter 3 Devoted Servants--And the Light of a Flare (p. 296)
- Chapter 4 Anthony and Flora (p. 325)
- Chapter 5 the Great De Barral (p. 349)
- Chapter 6 ...a Moonless Night, Thick with Stars Above, Very Dark on the Water* (p. 402)
- Appendix A (p. 448)
- Appendix B (p. 452)
- Explanatory Notes (p. 457)
- Glossary of Nautical Terms (p. 469)
Author notes provided by Syndetics
Joseph Conrad is recognized as one of the 20th century's greatest English language novelists.He was born Jozef Konrad Nalecz Korzeniowski on December 3, 1857, in the Polish Ukraine. His father, a writer and translator, was from Polish nobility, but political activity against Russian oppression led to his exile. Conrad was orphaned at a young age and subsequently raised by his uncle.
At 17 he went to sea, an experience that shaped the bleak view of human nature which he expressed in his fiction. In such works as Lord Jim (1900), Youth (1902), and Nostromo (1904), Conrad depicts individuals thrust by circumstances beyond their control into moral and emotional dilemmas. His novel Heart of Darkness (1902), perhaps his best known and most influential work, narrates a literal journey to the center of the African jungle. This novel inspired the acclaimed motion picture Apocalypse Now.
After the publication of his first novel, Almayer's Folly (1895), Conrad gave up the sea. He produced thirteen novels, two volumes of memoirs, and twenty-eight short stories. He died on August 3, 1924, in England.
(Bowker Author Biography)