Conrad’s 1908 collection moves from a Chilean soldier caught between royalists and republicans to a London anarchist cell, a murderous ship, a convict on a South American cattle estate, and an elderly count robbed in Naples. Its centrepiece, The Duel, follows two officers of Napoleon’s army who fight one another again and again across the wars.
Conrad at his most varied and ironic, with a novella that later inspired Ridley Scott’s The Duellists. Download the free EPUB.