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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... appearance in England any longer. It came out in the thirteenth month of the war, and my conscience was troubled by the awful incongruity of throwing this bit of imagined drama into the welter of reality, tragic enough in all conscience ...
... appearance in England any longer. It came out in the thirteenth month of the war, and my conscience was troubled by the awful incongruity of throwing this bit of imagined drama into the welter of reality, tragic enough in all conscience ...
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... and then, with the air of a man who knows life: "Who with?" he inquired with assurance. Mrs. Schomberg's immobility gave her an appearance of listening intently. Perhaps she was really listening; but Schomberg must have been.
... and then, with the air of a man who knows life: "Who with?" he inquired with assurance. Mrs. Schomberg's immobility gave her an appearance of listening intently. Perhaps she was really listening; but Schomberg must have been.
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... appeared with a loaded tray, on his way out. Schomberg went to the door and greeted the customers outside, but did not join them. He remained blocking half the doorway, with his back to the room, and was still there when Davidson, after ...
... appeared with a loaded tray, on his way out. Schomberg went to the door and greeted the customers outside, but did not join them. He remained blocking half the doorway, with his back to the room, and was still there when Davidson, after ...
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... appeared promptly. Davidson ordered a drink and sat tight. "I would have ordered twenty drinks one after another, if necessary," he said— Davidson's a very abstemious man—"rather than take that parcel out of the house again. Couldn't ...
... appeared promptly. Davidson ordered a drink and sat tight. "I would have ordered twenty drinks one after another, if necessary," he said— Davidson's a very abstemious man—"rather than take that parcel out of the house again. Couldn't ...
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