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Chance: a tale in two parts 61 editions

By Joseph Conrad
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It is a mighty force that of mere chance, absolutely irresistible yet manifesting itself often in delicate forms such for instance as the charm, true or illusory, of a human being' In Flora de Barral, the slender, dreamy, morbidly charming daughter of a parvenu financier, Conrad creates his most complex heroine and one of his most unrelenting, but not unhopeful, novels of emotional isolation. Neglected by her bankrupt father and rejected by her governess, drifting into abstraction and despair, Flora takes refuge at sea on Captain Anthony's ship, where tragedy and her transformation begin. When published in 1913, Chance was an immediate success. Arnold Bennett wrote that 'this is a discouraging book for a writer because he damn well knows he can't write as well as this'; while an anonymous reviewer in Punch declared that 'the whole thing is much nearer wizardry than workmanship'.

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Fiction, Children of prisoners, Fathers and daughters, Ship captains' spouses, Young women, Accessible book, Protected DAISY, Classic Literature, Literature, OverDrive, In library

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1913, Doubleday, Page & Company
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1913, Methuen
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in English
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1913, Doubleday, Page & company
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in English
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1913, Doubleday, Page & company
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in English
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1914, Doubleday, Doran & Co.
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1914, Doubleday, Page & Company
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1914, Bell & Cockburn
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in English
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1914, Methuen
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1920, Methuen
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in English - 16th ed.
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1921, Doubleday, Doran
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in English
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1923, J.M. Dent
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in English - Uniform ed.
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1923, Doubleday, Page
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in English
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1925, Gresham
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in English - Medallion ed.
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1925, John Grant
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in English
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1926, Methuen
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in English - 20th ed.
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1926, Doubleday, Page & company
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1930, Methuen
Chance
in English - 24th ed.
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1930, Doubleday, Doran & Co.
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1936, Methuen
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in English - 25th ed.
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1949, Dent
Chance
- Collected edition
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1949, Dent
Chance
in English - Collected ed.
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1955
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1957, Doubleday
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1968, W.W. Norton
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1969, Distributed by Heron Books
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1974, Penguin
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1984, Hogarth Press
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1984, Hogarth
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January 1985, Bantam Books
Chance
Mass Market Paperback
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1988, Oxford University Press
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1988, Oxford University Press
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January 18, 1990, Oxford University Press, USA
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March 3, 1992, Signet Classics
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1992, Signet Classic
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January 5, 1993, Penguin Classics
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in English
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January 5, 1993, Penguin Classics
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Paperback in English
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1996, Bell & Cockburn
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microform : in English
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1999, Oxford University Press, USA
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Paperback in English - New Ed edition
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May 2000, Classic Books
Chance
Library Binding
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January 18, 2001, Adamant Media Corporation
Chance
Paperback in English
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June 14, 2001, Adamant Media Corporation
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Paperback in English
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2002, Oxford University Press
Chance
in English - Rev. ed.
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October 18, 2002, Oxford University Press, USA
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in English
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February 2003, IndyPublish.com
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Hardcover in English
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January 2003, North Books
Chance
Hardcover in English - Largeprint edition
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January 2003, North Books
Chance
Hardcover in English
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February 2003, IndyPublish.com
Chance
Paperback in English
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February 1, 2003, Wildside Press
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Hardcover in English
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September 1, 2003, Wildside Press
Chance
Paperback in English
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2004, Fictionwise, Inc.
Chance
eBook in English
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2005, eBooksLib
Chance
eBook in English
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December 31, 2005, Paperbackshop.Co.UK Ltd - Echo Library
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Paperback in English - Largeprint edition
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November 3, 2006, Hard Press
Chance
Paperback in English
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December 30, 2007, Penguin Books
Chance
in English
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April 3, 2007, BiblioBazaar
Chance
Paperback in English
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April 30, 2007, Penguin Books
Chance
Paperback in English
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April 3, 2007, BiblioBazaar
Chance (Large Print Edition)
Paperback in English - Lrg edition
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2009, Penguin Group UK
Chance
electronic resource in English

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November 4, 2011 Edited by EdwardBot remove 'in fiction' subjects
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