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The Arrow of Gold: By Joseph Conrad - Illustrated
The Arrow of Gold By Joseph Conrad - Illustrated Author:Joseph Conrad How is this book unique? Font adjustments & biography included Unabridged (100% Original content) Illustrated About The Arrow of Gold by Joseph Conrad The Arrow of Gold is a novel by Joseph Conrad, published in 1919. The story is set in Marseille in the 1870s during the Third Carlist War. The characters of the novel are supporters of the Spanish... more » Pretender Carlos, Duke of Madrid. Curiously, the novel features a person referred to as "Lord X", whose activities as arms smuggler resemble those of the Carlist politician Tirso de Olazábal y Lardizábal, Count of Arbelaiz. The narrator of The Arrow of Gold has considerable involvement in the story and is unnamed, though some assume he is Conrad's regular narrator, Charles Marlow. The principal theme is a love triangle which comprises the young narrator, Dońa Rita and the Confederate veteran Captain Blunt. Dońa Rita finances the operations of the narrator's vessel, Tremolino which smuggles ammunition to the Carlist army. Nautical operations are detailed in the Tremolino chapters of The Mirror of the Sea rather than in this novel.« less