Chance is narrated by Conrad's regular narrator, Charles Marlow, but is characterised by a complex, nested narrative in which different narrators take up the story at different points. The novel is also unusual among its author's works for its focus on a female character: the heroine, Flora de Barral. The narrators describe and attempt to interpret various episodes in the life of Miss de Barral, the daughter of a convicted swindler named Smith de Barral (though this character is famous in the world of the novel as a criminal, he may, at least at first, have been merely an incompetent banker). Miss de Barral leads a sheltered life while her father is prosperous, then must rely on the generosity of others, who resent her or have agendas for her, before she escapes by marrying one Captain Anthony. Much of the book involves the musing of the various narrators over what she and the Captain expected from this union, and what they actually got from it.

Medien	Bücher Taschenbuch (Buch mit Softcover und geklebtem Rücken)
Erscheinungsdatum	14. Juni 2017
ISBN13	9781548121686
Verlag	Createspace Independent Publishing Platf
Seitenanzahl	244
Maße	152 × 229 × 13 mm · 331 g
Sprache	Englisch