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Peyrol is a Master-Gunner French Republican Navy and a pirate. He longs to escape his violent life and settle down on a farm far away from the ocean and the violence he has known all his life. This struggle for freedom and peace plays out against the backdrop of the French Revolution and Napoleon's rise to power. Peyrol must fight for redemption and dignity on this his final voyage.

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The unabridged classic on MP3 audio, narrated by Anais 9000. Three playback speeds on one disk; etext edition included. Running time: 8.2 hours (slow), 7.5 hours (medium), 6.8 hours (fast). Conrad's final novel has been disparaged as "an adventure story for boys" -- but also championed as a well-wrought fantasy of a seaman's heroic homecoming, a "meditation on the bonds and ethics of sea comraderie," and (beginning in 1796 and covering more than 8 years) is filled with fascinating details of the psychology of post-Revolutionary France.