01926cam a22003733u 4500 75172 UtSlPG 20260610134735.0 m cr n 260607r20251924utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d 24023735 UtSlPG en iso639-1 PR Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924 The nature of a crime Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg, 2025 1 online resource : multiple file formats text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nature_of_a_Crime Release date is 2025-01-22 Emmanuel Ackerman, David E. Brown, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) "The Nature of a Crime" by Joseph Conrad and Ford Madox Ford is a collaborative novel written and published in 1909. Told through a series of letters, the story follows an unnamed lawyer who has gambled away his client's trust fund. As imprisonment looms, he confesses his forbidden love for a married woman while wrestling with despair and contemplating suicide. The narrator's internal struggle explores themes of guilt, redemption, and whether life retains meaning when stripped of hope and freedom. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Originally published: Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1924 Epistolary fiction Man-woman relationships -- Fiction Embezzlement -- Fiction Ford, Ford Madox, 1873-1939 https://archive.org/details/natureofcrime0000conr/ https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/75172 115897 115897