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The Duel by Joseph Conrad (Omnibus)
4 Extra Debut. Following an imagined slight, two officers in Napoleon's Grand Army begin a duel which is to last a lifetime. Read by Stephen Boxer.
"Napoleon I, whose career had the quality of a duel against the whole of Europe, disliked duelling between the officers of his army."
The story of two feuding officers - Feraud and D'Hubert - both lieutenants in a regiment of hussars, but not in the same regiment.
Short story written by Joseph Conrad, first published in 1908.
Omnibus abridged in five parts by Andrew Simpson
Read by Stephen Boxer
Producer: Eoin O'Callaghan
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 1997.
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