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The Rover is the last complete novel by Joseph Conrad, written between 1921 and 1922. It was first published in 1923, and adapted into the 1967 film of the same namePlot summaryThe story takes place in the south of France, against the backdrop of the French Revolution, Napoleon's... Read Full Overview

A nautical psychological thriller from one of literature's giants, "The Rover" is the story of a French pirate from the Indian seas during the opening days of the Napoleonic wars.

Peyrol is a Master-Gunner French Republican Navy and a pirate. He longs to escape his violent life and settle down on a farm far away from the ocean and the violence he has known all his life. This struggle for freedom and peace plays out against the backdrop of the French... Read Full Overview

Peyrol is a Master-Gunner French Republican Navy and a pirate. He longs to escape his violent life and settle down on a farm far away from the ocean and the violence he has known all his life. This struggle for freedom and peace plays out against the backdrop of the French... Read Full Overview

The Rover is a novel by Joseph Conrad is a Historical fiction book. Set during the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars, The Rover tells the story of Peyrol, a seasoned sailor and privateer who seeks refuge in a secluded farmhouse near Toulon, France. After a life of tumultuous... Read Full Overview

As the Revolution rages in France, a seafarer named Peyrol, a master-gunner in the French republican navy, pirate, and for nearly fifty years "rover of the outer seas," comes to the end of a lifetime lived on the seas and seeks refuge in a remote farmhouse on the French Riviera... Read Full Overview

The Rover is the last complete novel by Joseph Conrad, written between 1921 and 1922. It was first published in 1923, and adapted into the 1967 film of the same name. The story takes place in the south of France, against the backdrop of the French Revolution, Napoleon's rise... Read Full Overview

Ce roman d'aventures est la derni re oeuvre que Joseph Conrad conduisit son terme. Peyrol, ancien forban, se retire sur le rivage m diterran en, non loin de la rade de Toulon, dans une p riode troubl e - l'action se d roule sous la Convention et le Consulat - o la paix laquelle... Read Full Overview

While his crew of half-starved scarecrows, hard as nails and ravenous as so many wolves for the delights of the shore, swarmed aloft to furl the sails nearly as thin and as patched as the grimy shirts on their backs, Peyrol took a survey of the quay. Groups were forming along... Read Full Overview

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Now considered Behn's most famous and most accomplished play, The Rover is in many ways firmly in the tradition of Restoration drama; Willmore, the title character, is a rake and a libertine, and the comedy feeds on sexual innuendo, intrigue and wit. But the laughter that the... Read Full Overview

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original... Read Full Overview