VictoryOnce regarded as comparatively minor amongst Conrad's works, Victory has grown in reputation. Its depiction of the central character, Axel Heyst, and his renunciation of the world, is influenced by Conrad's reading of Schopenhauer. |
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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 resume for my edification the exposition of his moral attitude towards life illustrated by striking particular instances ...
... there mysteriously, and coming up on deck again with a face on which nothing could be read, would as likely as not resume for my edification the exposition of his moral attitude towards life illustrated by striking particular instances ...
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... there was the devoted Martin busy cording cowhide trunks belonging to the deceased whose white beard and hooked nose were the only parts I could make out in the dark depths of a horrible stuffy bunk. As it fell calm in the course of the ...
... there was the devoted Martin busy cording cowhide trunks belonging to the deceased whose white beard and hooked nose were the only parts I could make out in the dark depths of a horrible stuffy bunk. As it fell calm in the course of the ...
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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 coalmine could be put into one's waistcoat pocketbut 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 coalmine could be put into one's waistcoat pocketbut 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 Samburanthe "Round Island" of the chartswas 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 Samburanthe "Round Island" of the chartswas dazzling; and in the flood of cold light Heyst could see his immediate ...
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