The Rover Audiobook (Free)

As the Revolution rages in France, a seafarer named Peyrol, a master-gunner in the French republican navy, pirate, and for pretty much fifty years “rover from the outer seas,” involves the finish of an eternity lived within the seas and seeks refuge within a remote farmhouse for the French Riviera. As he efforts to settle right into a tranquil existence, Peyrol problems to redefine himself and comes back to the sea for one last voyage.

The Rover is the last complete novel written by Joseph Conrad, and was published in 1923 shortly before his loss of life. Conrad placed on the name page an epigraph taken from Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene:

Rest after toyle, slot after stormie seas,Ease after warre, death after life, does greatly please

This also became Conrad’s epitaph.