VictoryOn a rare impulse Swedish Baron and rootless drifter Axel Heyst, rescues a sea captain from his debts. This uncharacteristic act of kindness has unimagined and tragic repercussions for many people, with the reader being left to decide the nature and attainability of ultimate victory. |
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Page 52
He was the same man who had plunged after the submerged Morrison whom he
hardly knew otherwise than by sight and through the usual gossip of the islands.
But this was another sort of plunge altogether, and likely to lead to a very ...
He was the same man who had plunged after the submerged Morrison whom he
hardly knew otherwise than by sight and through the usual gossip of the islands.
But this was another sort of plunge altogether, and likely to lead to a very ...
Page 57
I knew it would be all right, if you only cared to make it so; but of course I could
not tell if you meant it. "Command me," you said. Funny thing for a man like you to
say. Did you really mean it? You weren't making fun of me?' He protested that he
...
I knew it would be all right, if you only cared to make it so; but of course I could
not tell if you meant it. "Command me," you said. Funny thing for a man like you to
say. Did you really mean it? You weren't making fun of me?' He protested that he
...
Page 280
'You knew the late Baron Heyst well?' 'The truth is that nobody out here can boast
of having known him well,' said Davidson. 'He was a queer chap. I doubt if he
himself knew how queer he was. But everybody was aware that I was keeping my
...
'You knew the late Baron Heyst well?' 'The truth is that nobody out here can boast
of having known him well,' said Davidson. 'He was a queer chap. I doubt if he
himself knew how queer he was. But everybody was aware that I was keeping my
...
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Victory Classics Library Wordsworth Collection Wordsworth classics of world literature Wordsworth classics |
| Author | Joseph Conrad |
| Edition | revised |
| Publisher | Wordsworth Classics, 1995 |
| ISBN | 1853262560, 9781853262562 |
| Length | 283 pages |
| Subjects | › Fiction / Classics |
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