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The Arrow of Gold

by Joseph Conrad
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Set in the 1870s, this tale concerns the love of an English sea captain for the Spanish beauty Dona Rita. He carries Carlist munitions to Peninsular ports, she finances the project. Conrad recounts all the adventures of gun-running and the ever-threatening sea, but never loses his theme, the beautiful and transitory nature of love. Conrad treasured this story, and explained it as a fragment from his "buried youth."
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Publisher: Fictionwise, Inc.

Kindle Book

  • Release date: August 5, 2004

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  • Release date: August 5, 2004

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  • File size: 1350 KB
  • Release date: August 5, 2004

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subjects

Classic Literature Fiction

Languages

English

Levels

Text Difficulty:9-12

Set in the 1870s, this tale concerns the love of an English sea captain for the Spanish beauty Dona Rita. He carries Carlist munitions to Peninsular ports, she finances the project. Conrad recounts all the adventures of gun-running and the ever-threatening sea, but never loses his theme, the beautiful and transitory nature of love. Conrad treasured this story, and explained it as a fragment from his "buried youth."
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Classic Literature Fiction