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{{italic title}}The Arrow of Gold is a novel by Joseph Conrad, published in 1919. It was originally titled "The Laugh" and published serially in Lloyd's Magazine from December 1918 to February 1920.[1] The story is set in Marseille in the 1870s during the Third Carlist War. The characters of the novel are supporters of the Spanish Pretender Carlos, Duke of Madrid. Curiously, the novel features a person referred to as "Lord X", whose activities as arms smuggler resemble those of the Carlist politician Tirso de Olazábal y Lardizábal, Count of Arbelaiz.[2]

The narrator of The Arrow of Gold has considerable involvement in the story and is unnamed. The principal theme is a love triangle which comprises the young narrator, Doña Rita and the Confederate veteran Captain Blunt (named for Simon F. Blunt.[3] Doña Rita finances the operations of the narrator's vessel, Tremolino which smuggles ammunition to the Carlist army. Nautical operations are detailed in the Tremolino chapters[4] of The Mirror of the Sea rather than in this novel.

Conrad dedicated the novel to his friend and literary assistant Richard Curle.

See also

  • Politics in fiction
  • Third Carlist War
  • Carlism
  • Carlos, Duke of Madrid
  • Tirso de Olazábal y Lardizábal

References

1. ^http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/conrad/pva47.html
2. ^Conrad himself claimed to have smuggled arms for the Carlists along the Mediterranean coast, but there are conflicting views on authenticity of these accounts; some doubt it, see Zdzisław Najder, Życie Conrada-Korzeniowskiego, Warszawa 1980, {{ISBN|9788306001716}}, pp. 45-50, and some accept it, see Marek Jan Chodakiewicz, Affinity and Revulsion: Poland reacts to the Spanish Right (1936-1939), [in:] Marek Jan Chodakiewicz, John Radzilowski (eds.), Spanish Carlism and Polish Nationalism: The Borderlands of Europe in the 19th and 20th Centuries, Charlottesville 2003, {{ISBN|9781412834933}}, p. 48
3. ^{{cite book|last=Rintoul|first=M. C.|title=Dictionary of Real People and Places in Fiction|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tFCOc-tW3uMC|publisher=Taylor & Francis|year=1993|page=211}}
4. ^Conrad, Joseph "The Mirror of the Sea", chap XL-XLV

External links

{{Gutenberg|no=1083|name=The Arrow of Gold}}{{Conrad}}

The Laugh (later called The Arrow of Gold) in Lloyd's Magazine (December, 1918-February, 1920). URL http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/conrad/pva47.html

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