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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... course; he is only the physical and moral foundation of my Heyst laid on the ground of a short acquaintance. That it was short was certainly not my fault for he had charmed me by the mere amenity of his detachment which, in this case, I ...
... course; he is only the physical and moral foundation of my Heyst laid on the ground of a short acquaintance. That it was short was certainly not my fault for he had charmed me by the mere amenity of his detachment which, in this case, I ...
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... course of the afternoon and continued calm during all that night and the terrible, flaming day, the late "rich man" had to be thrown overboard at sunset, though as a matter of fact we were in sight of the low pestilential mangrovelined ...
... course of the afternoon and continued calm during all that night and the terrible, flaming day, the late "rich man" had to be thrown overboard at sunset, though as a matter of fact we were in sight of the low pestilential mangrovelined ...
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... course of two years, the company went into liquidationforced, I believe, not voluntary. There was nothing forcible in the process, however. It was slow; and while the liquidationin London and Amsterdampursued its languid course, Axel ...
... course of two years, the company went into liquidationforced, I believe, not voluntary. There was nothing forcible in the process, however. It was slow; and while the liquidationin London and Amsterdampursued its languid course, Axel ...
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... course, will be a farce. There's no one here to bid. He will get the brig for a songno, not even thata line of a song. You have been some years now in the islands, Heyst. You know us all; you have seen how we live. Now you shall have ...
... course, will be a farce. There's no one here to bid. He will get the brig for a songno, not even thata line of a song. You have been some years now in the islands, Heyst. You know us all; you have seen how we live. Now you shall have ...
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... course. I believe in children prayingwell, women, too, but I rather think God expects men to be more selfreliant. I don't hold with a man everlastingly bothering the Almighty with his silly troubles. It seems such cheek. Anyhow, this ...
... course. I believe in children prayingwell, women, too, but I rather think God expects men to be more selfreliant. I don't hold with a man everlastingly bothering the Almighty with his silly troubles. It seems such cheek. Anyhow, this ...
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