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Rover by Joseph Conrad

Rover

Joseph Conrad

Start Publishing PD · Print & ebook · May 22, 2024

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Who it’s for
A final voyage brings questions of freedom and redemption into a life shaped by violence.
Genres
Sea Stories, Historical Fiction, The Classics
Published
Start Publishing PD, May 22, 2024

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About this book

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 Revolution and Napoleon’s rise to power. Peyrol must fight for redemption and dignity on this his final voyage.

Sea and Reckoning

A final voyage brings questions of freedom and redemption into a life shaped by violence.

Come here for

  • A pirate’s uneasy pursuit of peace and dignity
  • Sea adventure set against revolution and Napoleon’s rise

Expect

  • Historical stakes without losing sight of one man’s struggle
  • A classic sea story with a serious moral undercurrent

Where it sits

Sea Stories66%
Historical Fiction50%
The Classics35%

Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.

Publisher categories

  • The Classics
  • Historical Fiction
  • Literary Fiction
Authors
Joseph Conrad
Publisher
Start Publishing PD
Published
May 22, 2024
Format
Print & ebook
Reading lane
The Classics