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The Duel, published in 1908, is a novella written by Joseph Conrad that is set during the Napoleonic Wars. The action centers around two Lieutenants in the French army that duel each other many times over the course of fourteen years. Joseph Conrad was a Polish-British writer who is considered to be one of the greatest authors in English literature. Conrad's books contain much of the elements seen in 19th-century realism but his modernistic writing also influenced many great authors that followed including Faulkner, Hemingway, and Orwell. Conrad wrote classics in many different genres and many of his works were based off his experiences at sea as a British merchant marine.

An exciting, swashbuckling thriller based on a true story about two of Napoleon's soldiers. Conrad's brilliantly ironic tale about two officers in Napoleon's Grand Army who, under a futile pretext, fought an on-going series of duels throughout the Napoleanic Wars. Over decades, on every occasion they chanced to meet, they fought. Both satiric and deeply sad, this masterful tale treats both the futility of war and the absurdity of false honor, war's necessary accessory.

The Duel is a novel written by Anton Chekhov, one of the most successful playwrights and novelists. The novel was first printed in 1891. It was adapted in a television series by Iosif Kheifits in 1973 renamed as The Bad Good Man, starring Vladimir Vysotsky and by Dover Kosashvili in 2010 as The Duel. The story is about the two main characters, Ivan Andreich Laevsky and Nadyezhda Fyodorovna, a couple who have lived in Caucasus. Nadyezhda is married to her first husband and a few of their neighbors dislike the idea of the lovers living together in the same house. Ivan tells his friend Samoilenko that he is not anymore in love with Nadyezhda. As a result, Laevsky drinks excessively and gambles having no sense of direction in his life. Von Koren, a scientist, thinks that what Ivan is doing is useless, and feels that killing him would be useful to all the residents. He challenges Ivan to a duel, from which his life will change entirely. Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was a Russian dramatist and authored many short stories. He is regarded as one of the most important and celebrated writers of short story in history. As a dramatist, he produced four plays and his greatest short stories are highly noteworthy and noted by fellow authors and critics. Together with Henrik Ibsen and August Strindberg, Chekhov is mostly considered as one of the three influential personalities in early modernism in the theater. Chekhov is also a medical doctor while having a career in writing most of the time. As he would say, "Medicine is my lawful wife and literature is my mistress." Anton Pavlovich Chekhov had the intention at first to produce dramas and write stories only for financial purposes, but as his creative literary passion grew, he made explicit modernizations which have inspired the change and progress of the present day short story.

Joseph Conrad was a Polish-British writer regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language. He joined the British merchant marine in 1878, and was granted British nationality in 1886. Though he did not speak English fluently until he was in his twenties, he was a master prose stylist who brought a non-English sensibility into English literature. He wrote stories and novels, many with a nautical setting, that depict trials of the human spirit in the midst of an impassive, inscrutable universe.

À Strasbourg, à la fin du xviiie siècle, le jeune lieutenant de cavalerie d'Hubert est chargé par l'état-major de mettre aux arrêts le lieutenant Féraud qui s'est rendu coupable d'avoir participé à un duel le matin même contre un civil. Ce soir-là, Hubert fait irruption dans le salon de Madame de Lionne pour procéder à l'arrestation, ce que n'apprécie guère le méridional lieutenant qui, devenu instantanément son ennemi juré, considère que cet affront à son honneur ne pourra trouver réparation que dans le sang.

How is this book unique? Font adjustments & biography included Unabridged (100% Original content) Formatted for e-reader Illustrated About The Duel by Joseph Conrad The Duel by Joseph Conrad is Conrad’s brilliantly ironic tale about two officers in Napoleon’s Grand Army who, under a futile pretext, fought an on-going series of duels throughout the Napoleonic Wars. Over decades, on every occasion they chanced to meet, they fought. Both satiric and deeply sad, this masterful tale treats both the futility of war and the absurdity of false honor, war’s necessary accessory.

It was eight o'clock in the morning—the time when the officers, the local officials, and the visitors usually took their morning dip in the sea after the hot, stifling night, and then went into the pavilion to drink tea or coffee. Ivan Andreitch Laevsky, a thin, fair young man of twenty-eight, wearing the cap of a clerk in the Ministry of Finance and with slippers on his feet, coming down to bathe, found a number of acquaintances on the beach, and among them his friend Samoylenko, the army doctor. With his big cropped head, short neck, his red face, his big nose, his shaggy black eyebrows and grey whiskers, his stout puffy figure and his hoarse military bass, this Samoylenko made on every newcomer the unpleasant impression of a gruff bully; but two or three days after making his acquaintance, one began to think his face extraordinarily good-natured, kind, and even handsome. In spite of his clumsiness and rough manner, he was a peaceable man, of infinite kindliness and goodness of heart, always ready to be of use. He was on familiar terms with every one in the town, lent every one money, doctored every one, made matches, patched up quarrels, arranged picnics at which he cooked shashlik and an awfully good soup of grey mullets. He was always looking after other people's affairs and trying to interest some one on their behalf, and was always delighted about something. The general opinion about him was that he was without faults of character. He had only two weaknesses: he was ashamed of his own good nature, and tried to disguise it by a surly expression and an assumed gruffness; and he liked his assistants and his soldiers to call him "Your Excellency," although he was only a civil councillor.

Napoleon I., whose career had the quality of a duel against the whole of Europe, disliked duelling between the officers of his army. The great military emperor was not a swashbuckler, and had little respect for tradition.Nevertheless, a story of duelling, which became a legend in the army, runs through the epic of imperial wars. To the surprise and admiration of their fellows, two officers, like insane artists trying to gild refined gold or paint the lily, pursued a private contest through the years of universal carnage. They were officers of cavalry, and their connection with the high-spirited but fanciful animal which carries men into battle seems particularly appropriate. It would be difficult to imagine for heroes of this legend two officers of infantry of the line, for example, whose fantasy is tamed by much walking exercise, and whose valour necessarily must be of a more plodding kind. As to gunners or engineers, whose heads are kept cool on a diet of mathematics, it is simply unthinkable.

Napoleon I., whose career had the quality of a duel against the whole of Europe, disliked duelling between the officers of his army. The great military emperor was not a swashbuckler, and had little respect for tradition.Nevertheless, a story of duelling, which became a legend in the army, runs through the epic of imperial wars. To the surprise and admiration of their fellows, two officers, like insane artists trying to gild refined gold or paint the lily, pursued a private contest through the years of universal carnage. They were officers of cavalry, and their connection with the high-spirited but fanciful animal which carries men into battle seems particularly appropriate. It would be difficult to imagine for heroes of this legend two officers of infantry of the line, for example, whose fantasy is tamed by much walking exercise, and whose valour necessarily must be of a more plodding kind. As to gunners or engineers, whose heads are kept cool on a diet of mathematics, it is simply unthinkable.The names of the two officers were Feraud and D'Hubert, and they were both lieutenants in a regiment of hussars, but not in the same regiment.