The Conrad, Joseph 1857-1924 creator Ford, Ford Madox 1873-1939 text utu 2025 monographic en 1 online resource : multiple file formats "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.) 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) Originally published: Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1924 Epistolary fiction Man-woman relationships -- Fiction Embezzlement -- Fiction PR Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1924 24023735 https://archive.org/details/natureofcrime0000conr/ https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/75172 https://archive.org/details/natureofcrime0000conr/ https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/75172 UtSlPG 260607 20260610134735.0 75172