Chance (Annotated) : A Tale in Two Parts

from rocketjk

Chance is not considered to be one of Conrad's great works, a judgement with which I concur, although somewhat ironically the book provided Conrad's first major commercial success. I have, and have read, a collection of Conrad's letters to Edward Garnett. Garnett was one of Conrad's first champio...

from LeRigby

Although in many ways this is a complex narrative, the story in essence is quite straight forward. I will give this in outline without giving too much away. Flora de Barral is the only child of a rising star in the world of London finance, the founder of a new investment bank that soon crashes af...

from rsairs

Not my favorite Conrad novel. I've read Lord Jim, the Secret Agent and Heart of Darkness. There is a not quite humorous enough pedantry in Marlow--the story's narrator. I didn't quite know when I was supposed to laugh. That said, there were many profound observations about life and chance in the ...