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The Arrow of Gold: A Story Between Two Notes
Joseph Conrad
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Description for The Arrow of Gold: A Story Between Two Notes
paperback. During the Carlist war, a sailor, the unnamed protagonist, joins the champions of Don Carlos de Bourbon, pretender to the throne of Spain. The Carlists use the youth's attraction to the sea to persuade him to run perilous enterprises for their cause, ventures he later learns have been financed by the mistress and heiress of a rich man's fortune. Series: Pine Street Books. Num Pages: 392 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 184 x 127 x 28. Weight in Grams: 381. Good clean clothbound copy showing light age and shelfwear. Foxing to page edges. In mylar dust jacket. Small split at head of spine. Binding slightly loose and visible between front board and ffep, where front board pulls away. Remains a nice reading copy
Reflecting Conrad's genius for narrative that focuses on the quest for inner truths, The Arrow of Gold is an exploration of the dangerous appetites of men and of human vulnerability, as well as a profound meditation on the emotional boundary between people. Boasting a cast of extraordinary and eccentric personalities, including the heroine Doña Rita, this is a story of adventure on the high seas, of the revelation of love, of the crushing weight of loss, and of freedom found in the recklessness of unadorned sincerity.
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Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Pine Street Books United States
Number of pages
392
Condition
Used, Good
Series
Pine Street Books
Number of Pages
392
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780812218855
SKU
KMO0002045
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99-1
About Joseph Conrad
Joseph Conrad was born Theodor Jozef Konrad Korzeniowski in 1857 in the Ukraine. After twenty years at sea he retired to England, where he devoted himself to writing and published his first novel at the age of thirty-eight. In addition to Lord Jim (1900) and Nostromo (1904), his works include the novel The Secret Agent (1907) and the novella "Heart ... Read more
Reviews for The Arrow of Gold: A Story Between Two Notes
"The magical quality of the narrative, the fastidious and unerring distinction of the style, are Conrad at his best."
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"Doña Rita is only the central figure, not the sole notable figure, in a wonderful group, whose collective impression is that of some splendid, barbaric, yet most delicately and finely wrought example of the jeweler's art."
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"Doña Rita is only the central figure, not the sole notable figure, in a wonderful group, whose collective impression is that of some splendid, barbaric, yet most delicately and finely wrought example of the jeweler's art."
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