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title: "Chance"
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# Chance

**Brand:** createspace independent publishing platform
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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Not An Essential Read
  

*by M***P on March 10, 2018*









  
  
    There’s a good reason why you never knew Conrad wrote this novel: it’s a minor work.  The writing quality is high but also needlessly dense and repetitive too much of the time.  The story line is interesting but takes forever to play out.  I almost gave up out of boredom thrice but stayed the course hoping it would improve, which it didn’t.  This is another of Conrad’s less successful efforts.  It’s certainly no Lord Jim or Heart of Darkness.
  


### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Marlow mostly landlocked, mastering irony
  

*by H***R on April 28, 2009*









  
  
    This is one of the few Conrads that I had not read before. From the descriptions I had gotten a wrong impression and had stayed away in the past. I expected a sombre rumination of female problems. Wrong expectations!It is Marlow's last performance, and it is more land-based than his 3 previous tales; but not entirely! Marlow has matured and has broader interests, he is looking into society, describes a strangely modern financial fraudster, takes up women's movement as a subject, with less than full enthusiasm.Marlow has changed his sense of humour, he is an ironist now. Past Marlows were entirely un-humorous, to the extent that I mistook him for Conrad and was surprised how funny some of Conrad's non-Marlow tales are. Take Secret Agent!Chance is as funny as Secret Agent. And yet it is also a Victorian standard plot, a damsel in distress story as any of the wildest romances of the previous century. If one would want to summarize the 'plot', it would sound very pedestrian, so I don't do it.Like Lord Jim, this novel started as a short story, initially called Dynamite. Like Rescue, Chance was interrupted and took years to be completed. Like Victory, it was an amazing commercial success for a writer who was a typical writer's writer: high reputation, little business. This book sold like hot cakes in the US and gave Conrad a comfortable last decade of his life.One might suspect the bestseller status was due to a misunderstanding, and the introduction to this edition presumes that Chance was a very unread bestseller. I am not so sure. The novel is quite entertaining. While the plot (fraudster's daughter in existential trouble gets rescued by sailor after going through all kinds of other people's schemes) is nothing spectacular, the manner of telling it is a very amusing way of the Marlow narration style: he collects bits and pieces from several sources and the tale's story is happening over 17 years. It is never a difficult structure and Marlow's ponderous style in, say, the Heart, is replaced by light-handed banter.I found it very enjoyable.'Luckily people are for the most part quite incapable of understanding what is happening to them; a merciful provision of nature to preserve an average amount of sanity.'
  


### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Good book, easy reading.
  

*by J***S on February 22, 2015*









  
  
    This is an interesting and entertaining book which is very unlike Conrad's sea tales, although it involves sailors, including the familiar "Marlowe" of "Heart of Darkness" fame.  I started reading this in a battered paperback which fell apart faster than I could read, so I ordered this hard cover, large-type edition.The book is well made and it is large enough that there are about as many words on a page as there are in a paperback.  I find many large-type books to be annoying because one is rapidly turning pages due to the small number of words on each page.I recommend this book both as literature and as a good well-made book.
  


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