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The Nature of a Crime

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Preface
10:59
Chapter 1
22:49
Chapter 2
9:23
Chapter 3
5:02
Chapter 4
15:36
Chapter 5
16:20
Chapter 6
16:12
Chapter 7
10:23
Chapter 8
11:59

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This short, curious collaboration between Joseph Conrad and Ford Madox Ford takes the form of a long confession written by a respectable London solicitor to the married woman he secretly loves. Facing exposure, he admits that he has quietly embezzled the fortune of a young man left in his trust, and that he keeps a vial of poison ready should the fraud come to light. The letters trace his tangled feelings about money, guilt, desire, and the calm approach of self-destruction. Written by the two authors during their creative partnership and first published in 1909, it is a minor but intriguing product of a friendship that helped shape modern English fiction. A free PDF and EPUB edition is available.

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Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox Ford

Joseph Conrad (1857-1924), the Polish-born master of English prose, and Ford Madox Ford (1873-1939), novelist and influential editor, were close friends and collaborators in the early 1900s. Together they produced several works, sharpening the ideas about narrative technique that shaped literary modernism.

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