The nature of a crime by Joseph Conrad and Ford Madox Ford
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"The Nature of a Crime" by Joseph Conrad and Ford Madox Ford is a collaborative novel written and published in 1909. Told through a series of letters, the story follows an unnamed lawyer who has gambled away his client's trust fund. As imprisonment looms, he confesses his forbidden love for a married woman while wrestling with despair and contemplating suicide. The narrator's internal struggle explores themes of guilt, redemption, and whether life
retains meaning when stripped of hope and freedom. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924 |
|---|---|
| Author | Ford, Ford Madox, 1873-1939 |
| LoC No. | 24023735 |
| Title | The nature of a crime |
| Original Publication | Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1924. |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nature_of_a_Crime |
| Credits | Emmanuel Ackerman, David E. Brown, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 77.7 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PR: Language and Literatures: English literature |
| Subject | Epistolary fiction |
| Subject | Man-woman relationships -- Fiction |
| Subject | Embezzlement -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 75172 |
| ISBN (HTML) | 979-8-238-75172-6 |
| Release Date | Jan 22, 2025 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 235 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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