Victory: An Island TaleVictory (also published as Victory: An Island Tale) is a psychological novel by Joseph Conrad, through which Conrad achieved "popular success." The New York Times, however, called it "an uneven book" and "more open to criticism than most of Mr. Conrad's best work." The novel's "most striking formal characteristic is its shifting narrative and temporal perspective" with the first section from the viewpoint of a sailor, the second from omniscient perspective of Axel Heyst, the third from an interior perspective from Heyst, and the final section. It has been adapted into film a number of times. |
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... there would be eyes to spare for those pages in a community which in the crash of the big guns and in the din of ... There should have been a remedy for that sort of thing. And yet there is no remedy. Behind this minute instance of ...
... there would be eyes to spare for those pages in a community which in the crash of the big guns and in the din of ... There should have been a remedy for that sort of thing. And yet there is no remedy. Behind this minute instance of ...
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... there mysteriously, and coming up on deck again with a face on which nothing could be read, would as likely as not ... there was dead: He had died in the night. I don't remember ever being so moved by the desolate end of a complete ...
... there mysteriously, and coming up on deck again with a face on which nothing could be read, would as likely as not ... there was dead: He had died in the night. I don't remember ever being so moved by the desolate end of a complete ...
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... there was not the slightest resemblance between them. All I am certain of in their personal relation to each other is that cruel pinch on the upper part of the arm. That I am sure I have seen! There could be no mistake. I was in too ...
... there was not the slightest resemblance between them. All I am certain of in their personal relation to each other is that cruel pinch on the upper part of the arm. That I am sure I have seen! There could be no mistake. I was in too ...
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... There is, from that point of view, a deplorable lack of concentration in coal. Now, if a coal-mine could be put into one's waistcoat pocket—but it can't! At the same time, there is a fascination in coal, the supreme commodity of the age ...
... There is, from that point of view, a deplorable lack of concentration in coal. Now, if a coal-mine could be put into one's waistcoat pocket—but it can't! At the same time, there is a fascination in coal, the supreme commodity of the age ...
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... there is a tremendous difference between the two, you will allow. On the nights of full moon the silence around Samburan—the "Round Island" of the charts—was dazzling; and in the flood of cold light Heyst could see his immediate ...
... there is a tremendous difference between the two, you will allow. On the nights of full moon the silence around Samburan—the "Round Island" of the charts—was dazzling; and in the flood of cold light Heyst could see his immediate ...
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