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The Rover is the last complete novel by Joseph Conrad, written between 1921 and 1922. It was first published in 1923, and adapted into the 1967 film of the same name
The story takes place in the south of France, against the backdrop of the French Revolution, Napoleon's rise to power, and the French - English rivalry in the Mediterranean. Peyrol (a master - gunner in the French republican navy, pirate and for nearly fifty years "rover of the outer seas") attempts to find refuge in an isolated farmhouse (Escampobar) on the Giens Peninsula near Hyères.
The story is about Peyrol's attempt at withdrawal from an action - and blood filled life; his involvement with the pariahs of Escampobar; the struggle for his identity and allegiance, which is resolved in his last voyage.
Conrad placed on the title page an epigraph taken from Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene:
Sleep after toyle, port after stormie seas,
Ease after warre, death after life, does greatly please
This also became Conrad's epitaph.
L'avventuriero (internationally released as The Rover) is a 1967 Italian war drama film directed by Terence Young and starring Anthony Quinn. It is based on the novel of the same name written by Joseph Conrad.
Starring: Anthony Quinn: Peyrol, Rosanna Schiaffino: Arlette, Rita Hayworth: Caterina, Richard Johnson: Real, Ivo Garrani: Scevola, Mino Doro: Dussard, Luciano Rossi: Michel, Mirko Valentin: Jacot, Giovanni Di Benedetto: Lt. Bolt, Anthony Dawson: Capitain Vincent
The film performed disappointingly at the box office, earning $225,000 in rentals internationally and $70,000 domestically. According to ABC records, it suffered an overall loss of $1,595,000.