"Romance" by Joseph Conrad and Ford Madox Ford is a novel published in 1903. The second of three collaborations between the two writers, this work emerged from an intense and complicated literary partnership marked by creative friction and mutual influence. The novel's dramatic material centers on themes of adventure and conflict, which the authors developed through a unique collaborative process that blended their distinct voices into something entirely new. Their working relationship, though productive, was fraught with tension that would eventually lead to their permanent estrangement in 1909. (This is an automatically generated summary.)