The rover
Subtitle: by Joseph Conrad
Publisher: T. Fisher Unwin Ltd.
Published: 1923
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 317
Subjects: Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815; Fiction; Napoleonic Wars (1800-1815) fast (OCoLC)fst01032683
Description: In this novel Mr. Conrad has the Mediterranean, as seen from the French south coast, not for a stage, but for a background, in the depth of which the presence of the English blockading fleet is rather felt than seen throughout the course of events which happen on land in a lonely farm house. The narrative, intimate in character, deals with the crisis in the lives of two women and some men - the Rover being the central figure - and ends at sea in an episode in which the shapes of the blockading ships and the person of Lord Nelson himself are evoked for a moment. The tale, though in no sense historical, attempts to reflect in part at least the spirit of the period 1802-4, with references to an earlier time, after the evacuation of Toulon, when during the savage excesses of the Republican reaction the Heiress of Escampobar, when still almost a child, passed through experiences which had unsettled her mind.--Dust jacket.