Through Sunday, August 21st The Duel by Joseph Conrad is available as a free eBook download. As a part of our new HybridBook initiative this eBook comes with complimentary supplementary materials we call Illuminations—highly curated text, maps, photographs and illustrations related to the original book. Conrad’s Duel comes Illuminated with:
- A selection from Napoleon’s memoirs
- “Dueling in France” from Sports and Pastimes magazine published in 1903
- Studies of Conrad and the reception of The Duel when it was originally published
- A historical account of the two solider who inspired Conrad’s The Duel
- +The Duelists Supplement, an instructive, illustrated, compilation of historical Dueling manuals: “The Code Duello: A diverse Anthology for Personal Use”
And much, much more all appended at the end of the original text.
Learn more about HybridBooks and the Illuminations series —HERE—
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