A Set of Six - Joseph Conrad - Books -  - 9798677544255 - October 7, 2020
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A Set of Six

Book Excerpt: ...was many years ago. It has been since reinstated in its proper place, which is the place it occupies in this volume, in all the subsequent editions of my work. Its pedigree is extremely simple. It springs from a ten-line paragraph in a small provincial paper published in the South of France. That paragraph, occasioned by a duel with a fatal ending between two well-known Parisian personalities, referred for some reason or other to the "well-known fact" of two officers in Napoleon's Grand Army having fought a series of duels in the midst of great wars and on some futile pretext. The pretext was never disclosed. I had therefore to invent it; and I think that, given the character of the two offi- cers which I had to invent, too, I have made it suffi- ciently convincing by the mere force of its absurdity. The truth is that in my mind the story is nothing but a serious and even earnest attempt at a bit of historical fiction. I had heard in my boyhood a good deal of the great Napoleonic legend. I had a genuine feeli...

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released October 7, 2020
ISBN13 9798677544255
Pages 192
Dimensions 152 × 229 × 11 mm   ·   290 g
Language English  

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