Lieutenant D’Hubert is sent to put Lieutenant Feraud under arrest, and the fiery Gascon challenges him to a duel over the insult. Their quarrel, never quite explained, flares again and again through the years of Napoleon’s campaigns, surviving promotions, the retreat from Moscow and the fall of the Empire itself.
The novella known as The Duel, which inspired Ridley Scott’s film, Conrad at his most ironic and entertaining. Download the free EPUB.