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The Rover
Chapters (18)
- Epigraph 0:00
- Dedication 0:13
- I 0:23
- II 18:22
- III 43:44
- IV 1:11:49
- V 1:37:16
- VI 2:03:31
- VII 2:28:07
- VIII 3:11:44
- IX 3:48:53
- X 4:23:17
- XI 5:02:47
- XII 5:42:02
- XIII 6:08:15
- XIV 6:26:47
- XV 7:14:44
- XVI 8:21:29
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Having spent his life roving faraway seas, Peyrol returns to his birthplace on the French coast to retire on a small fortune acquired through piracy. Meanwhile, the historical events of the French Revolution and France’s war with England make Peyrol reconsider his withdrawal to undertake a patriotic mission.
The Rover, published in 1923, is the last novel Conrad completed before his death in 1924. The book is in part a retelling of the myth of Acis and Galatea, and was adapted into a film in 1967. The epigraph, taken from Spenser’s The Faerie Queene, subsequently became Conrad’s epitaph.