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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... step up, his blinking, cushioned eyes, his thick lips, his very chestnut beard, looking full of malice. "Evening, gentlemen. Have you got all you want? So! Good! Well, I am told the jungle has choked the very sheds in Black Diamond Bay ...
... step up, his blinking, cushioned eyes, his thick lips, his very chestnut beard, looking full of malice. "Evening, gentlemen. Have you got all you want? So! Good! Well, I am told the jungle has choked the very sheds in Black Diamond Bay ...
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... step in. Ah, well!" He sat down in the stern-sheets, and already had the steering lines in his hands when Heyst observed abruptly: "The world is a bad dog. It will bite you if you give it a chance; but I think that here we can safely ...
... step in. Ah, well!" He sat down in the stern-sheets, and already had the steering lines in his hands when Heyst observed abruptly: "The world is a bad dog. It will bite you if you give it a chance; but I think that here we can safely ...
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... step in and listen to a piece or two of an evening? Not he. I know him of old. There he sits at the dark end of the ... steps, lifted a calico curtain, and went in. The uproar in that small, barn-like structure, built of imported pine ...
... step in and listen to a piece or two of an evening? Not he. I know him of old. There he sits at the dark end of the ... steps, lifted a calico curtain, and went in. The uproar in that small, barn-like structure, built of imported pine ...
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... steps from the platform to the floor of the hall. There she paused, stumbled one pace forward, and stood still again, while the other—the escort, the dragoon, the coarse big woman of the piano—passed her roughly, and, marching ...
... steps from the platform to the floor of the hall. There she paused, stumbled one pace forward, and stood still again, while the other—the escort, the dragoon, the coarse big woman of the piano—passed her roughly, and, marching ...
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