The Duel, Joseph Conrad
The Duel, Joseph Conrad
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The Duel

Author: Joseph Conrad

Narrator: Michael Ward

Unabridged: 3 hr 13 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/18/2019


Synopsis

When a chance encounter between two cavalry officers results in a duel in a garden, so begins a tale that spans the next 16 years and follows the campaigns of Bonaparte across Austria, Russia and beyond. Crossing swords again and again, these two officers, one a temperate and cool-headed strategist, the other a hot-blooded and intemperate gascon, become the talk of all the army until it's final conclusion.

A period classic amidst a time of european tumult by Joseph Conrad, narrated by Michael Ward.

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Reviews

Goodreads review by Peter on July 17, 2020

Brilliant novella written by a true master story teller. Two officers in the Napoleon wars are extremely focused on the duels they fight with each other. D'Hubert, aristocratic, moderate, a strategist who doesn't love Napoleon. Feraud, a hot blooded Gascogne on the other hand, loves Napoleon. He is......more

Goodreads review by Olethros on August 06, 2018

-El momento histórico y las personalidades se forjan entre ellos.- Género. Novela (mucho más histórica de lo que son algunas que dicen ser novela histórica, pero esa no fue su intención cuando se escribió). Lo que nos cuenta. En el libro Los duelistas (publicación original: The Point of Honor. A Milit......more