Victory, Volume 2The tale of a Swedish nobleman living alone on an island in the South seas. An analysis of evil. |
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Page ix
... expressing the truth of an indomitable faith could not but feel the edge of a
sharp knife at its throat . The unchanging Man of history is wonderfully adaptable
both by his power of endurance and in his capacity for detachment . The fact
seems ...
... expressing the truth of an indomitable faith could not but feel the edge of a
sharp knife at its throat . The unchanging Man of history is wonderfully adaptable
both by his power of endurance and in his capacity for detachment . The fact
seems ...
Page xi
He vanished from my ker only to drift into this adventure that , unavoidable ,
waited for him in a world which he persisted in looking upon as a malevolent
shadow spinning in the sunlight , Often in the course of years an expressed
sentiment ...
He vanished from my ker only to drift into this adventure that , unavoidable ,
waited for him in a world which he persisted in looking upon as a malevolent
shadow spinning in the sunlight , Often in the course of years an expressed
sentiment ...
Page 6
What he seemed mostly concerned for was the " stride forward , " as he
expressed it , in the general organisation of the universe , apparently . He was
heard by more than a hundred persons in the islands talking of a “ great stride
forward for ...
What he seemed mostly concerned for was the " stride forward , " as he
expressed it , in the general organisation of the universe , apparently . He was
heard by more than a hundred persons in the islands talking of a “ great stride
forward for ...
Page 12
Being hailed across the street he looked up with a wild worried expression . He
was really in trouble . He had come the week before into Delli , and the
Portuguese authorities , on some pretence of irregularity in his papers , had
inflicted a fine ...
Being hailed across the street he looked up with a wild worried expression . He
was really in trouble . He had come the week before into Delli , and the
Portuguese authorities , on some pretence of irregularity in his papers , had
inflicted a fine ...
Page 26
Teutonic temperament seldom is . But he put on a sinister expression to tell us
that Heyst had not paid perhaps three visits altogether to his “ establishment . ”
This was Heyst's crime , for which Schomberg wished him nothing less 26
VICTORY.
Teutonic temperament seldom is . But he put on a sinister expression to tell us
that Heyst had not paid perhaps three visits altogether to his “ establishment . ”
This was Heyst's crime , for which Schomberg wished him nothing less 26
VICTORY.
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Victory, Volume 2 Victory, Joseph Conrad |
| Author | Joseph Conrad |
| Publisher | Doubleday, 1921 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 2 Jul 2019 |
| Length | 412 pages |
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