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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... girl. Her detachment from her task seems to me now to have equalled or even surpassed Heyst's aloofness from all the mental degradations to which a man's intelligence is exposed in its way through life. Silent and wide-eyed she went ...
... girl. Her detachment from her task seems to me now to have equalled or even surpassed Heyst's aloofness from all the mental degradations to which a man's intelligence is exposed in its way through life. Silent and wide-eyed she went ...
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... girl, Mrs. Schomberg, do you really mean a young girl? Some of these orchestra girls are no chicks." "Young enough," came the low voice out of Mrs. Schomberg's unmoved physiognomy. Davidson, encouraged, remarked that he was sorry for ...
... girl, Mrs. Schomberg, do you really mean a young girl? Some of these orchestra girls are no chicks." "Young enough," came the low voice out of Mrs. Schomberg's unmoved physiognomy. Davidson, encouraged, remarked that he was sorry for ...
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... girl! "You might have knocked me down with a feather," Davidson told us some time afterwards. By then he was taking an indulgent view of both the parties to that amazing transaction. First of all, on reflection, he was by no means ...
... girl! "You might have knocked me down with a feather," Davidson told us some time afterwards. By then he was taking an indulgent view of both the parties to that amazing transaction. First of all, on reflection, he was by no means ...
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... girl, and—" "And she to him, apparently," I suggested. "Wonderfully quick work," reflected Davidson. "What do you think will come of it?" "Repentance, I should say. But how is it that Mrs. Schomberg has been selected for a confidante ...
... girl, and—" "And she to him, apparently," I suggested. "Wonderfully quick work," reflected Davidson. "What do you think will come of it?" "Repentance, I should say. But how is it that Mrs. Schomberg has been selected for a confidante ...
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... girl must have been specially attractive," I said. "I don't know. She was miserable. I don't suppose it was more than a little linen and a couple of those white frocks they wear on the platform." Davidson pursued his own train of ...
... girl must have been specially attractive," I said. "I don't know. She was miserable. I don't suppose it was more than a little linen and a couple of those white frocks they wear on the platform." Davidson pursued his own train of ...
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