The Rover & Suspense (Napoleonic Novels)

The Rover is a novel by Joseph Conrad, written between 1921 and 1922. It was first published in 1923. The story takes place in the south of France, against the backdrop of the French Revolution, Napoleon's rise to power, and the French-English rivalry in the Mediterranean.

Suspense: A Napoleonic Novel is the last novel of Joseph Conrad and was published in 1925.

Joseph Conrad (1857-1924), was a Polish author who wrote in English after settling in England. Conrad is regarded as one of the greatest novelists in English, though he did not speak the language fluently until he was in his twenties. He wrote stories and novels, often with a nautical setting, that depict trials of the human spirit in the midst of an indifferent universe. He was a master prose stylist who brought a distinctly non-English tragic sensibility into English literature.

Table of Contents:

Novels

The Rover (1923)

Suspense: A Napoleonic Novel (1925)

Memoirs & Letters

A Personal Record; or Some Reminiscences

The Mirror of the Sea

Notes on Life & Letters

Biography and Critical Essays

Joseph Conrad (A Biography) by Hugh Walpole

Joseph Conrad, A Personal Remembrance by Ford Madox Ford

Joseph Conrad by John Albert Macy

A Conrad Miscellany by John Albert Macy

Joseph Conrad by Virginia Woolf