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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... stopped short, and exclaimed in faltering accents: "I say! You aren't joking, Heyst?" "Joking!" Heyst's blue eyes went hard as he turned them on the discomposed Morrison. "In what way, may I ask?" he continued with austere politeness ...
... stopped short, and exclaimed in faltering accents: "I say! You aren't joking, Heyst?" "Joking!" Heyst's blue eyes went hard as he turned them on the discomposed Morrison. "In what way, may I ask?" he continued with austere politeness ...
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... stopped to consider, or he couldn't have done it. No sane man ... How is a thing like that to go on? What's he going to do with her in the end? It's madness." "You say that he's mad. Schomberg tells us that he must be starving on his ...
... stopped to consider, or he couldn't have done it. No sane man ... How is a thing like that to go on? What's he going to do with her in the end? It's madness." "You say that he's mad. Schomberg tells us that he must be starving on his ...
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... stopped at the door, deep in his simplicity. "I am sorry you won't tell me anything about my friend's absence," he said. "My friend Heyst, you know. I suppose the only course for me now is to make inquiries down at the port. I shall ...
... stopped at the door, deep in his simplicity. "I am sorry you won't tell me anything about my friend's absence," he said. "My friend Heyst, you know. I suppose the only course for me now is to make inquiries down at the port. I shall ...
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... stopped. "Yes, rather." His feelings were, he told us, those of bewildered resignation; but of course that was no more visible to the others than the emotions of a turtle when it withdraws into its shell. "It seems unreasonable," he ...
... stopped. "Yes, rather." His feelings were, he told us, those of bewildered resignation; but of course that was no more visible to the others than the emotions of a turtle when it withdraws into its shell. "It seems unreasonable," he ...
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... stopped his engines, and lowered a boat. He went himself in that boat, which was manned, of course, by his Malay seamen. Heyst, when he saw the boat pulling towards him, dropped his signallingpole; and when Davidson arrived, he was ...
... stopped his engines, and lowered a boat. He went himself in that boat, which was manned, of course, by his Malay seamen. Heyst, when he saw the boat pulling towards him, dropped his signallingpole; and when Davidson arrived, he was ...
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