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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... chairs, all alone in the loud buzzing of flies to which his immobility and his cadaverous aspect gave a most gruesome significance. Our invasion must have displeased him because he got off the chairs brusquely and walked out, leaving ...
... chairs, all alone in the loud buzzing of flies to which his immobility and his cadaverous aspect gave a most gruesome significance. Our invasion must have displeased him because he got off the chairs brusquely and walked out, leaving ...
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... chairs and tables?" Davidson asked with unconcealed astonishment. Heyst did mean that. "My poor father died in London. It has been all stored there ever since," he explained. "For all these years?" exclaimed Davidson, thinking how long ...
... chairs and tables?" Davidson asked with unconcealed astonishment. Heyst did mean that. "My poor father died in London. It has been all stored there ever since," he explained. "For all these years?" exclaimed Davidson, thinking how long ...
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... chairs and tables. Solitude, shade, and gloomy silenceand a faint, treacherous breeze which came from under the trees and quite unexpectedly caused the melting Davidson to shiver slightlythe little shiver of the tropics which in ...
... chairs and tables. Solitude, shade, and gloomy silenceand a faint, treacherous breeze which came from under the trees and quite unexpectedly caused the melting Davidson to shiver slightlythe little shiver of the tropics which in ...
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... chairs, the ping of a smitten bell. Customers were turning up. Mrs. Schomberg was begging Davidson hurriedly, but without looking at him, to say nothing to anyone, when on a halfuttered word her nervous whisper was cut short. Through a ...
... chairs, the ping of a smitten bell. Customers were turning up. Mrs. Schomberg was begging Davidson hurriedly, but without looking at him, to say nothing to anyone, when on a halfuttered word her nervous whisper was cut short. Through a ...
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