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The Duel and Other Tales
Joseph Conrad
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Introduced by Giles Foden.
Bound in full buckram, printed and blocked with a design by the artist.
Set in Garamond with Romana display.
12 full-page linocuts by Francis Mosley.
9" x 6 1/4". 264 pages.
D'Hubert and Feraud, cavalry officers in the Napoleonic Grande Armée, are drawn into a duel while garrisoned in Strasbourg. Though both men survive the encounter, their private contest endures through ten long years of European campaigning, from the battle of Austerlitz to the Russian retreat and the fall of Bonaparte.
Inspired by a well-known legend, 'The Duel' is one of Conrad's rare forays into historical fiction, and - as the writer hoped it would - brilliantly captures 'the Spirit of the Epoch'. The other stories in this collection, originally published under the title A Set of Six, are 'Gaspar Ruiz', 'The Informer', 'The Brute', 'The Anarchist' and 'Il Conde'.
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