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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... don't intend to make any damaging admissions. It so happened that the very same year Ricardothe physical Ricardowas a fellow passenger of mine on board an extremely small and extremely dirty little schooner, during a four days' passage ...
... don't intend to make any damaging admissions. It so happened that the very same year Ricardothe physical Ricardowas a fellow passenger of mine on board an extremely small and extremely dirty little schooner, during a four days' passage ...
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... don't know why I have been telling you all this. I suppose seeing a thoroughly white man made it impossible to keep my trouble to myself. Words can't do it justice; but since I've told you so much I may as well tell you more. Listen ...
... don't know why I have been telling you all this. I suppose seeing a thoroughly white man made it impossible to keep my trouble to myself. Words can't do it justice; but since I've told you so much I may as well tell you more. Listen ...
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... don't hold with a man everlastingly bothering the Almighty with his silly troubles. It seems such cheek. Anyhow, this morning II have never done any harm to any God's creature knowinglyI prayed. A sudden impulseI went flop on my knees ...
... don't hold with a man everlastingly bothering the Almighty with his silly troubles. It seems such cheek. Anyhow, this morning II have never done any harm to any God's creature knowinglyI prayed. A sudden impulseI went flop on my knees ...
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... don't know how it is that I've never been able to save. It's some sort of curse. There's always a bill or two to meet." He plunged his hand into his pocket for the famous notebook so well known in the islands, the fetish of his hopes ...
... don't know how it is that I've never been able to save. It's some sort of curse. There's always a bill or two to meet." He plunged his hand into his pocket for the famous notebook so well known in the islands, the fetish of his hopes ...
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... don't know. Out there he was by profession a hotelkeeper, first in Bangkok, then somewhere else, and ultimately in Sourabaya. He dragged after him up and down that section of the tropical belt a silent, frightened, little woman with ...
... don't know. Out there he was by profession a hotelkeeper, first in Bangkok, then somewhere else, and ultimately in Sourabaya. He dragged after him up and down that section of the tropical belt a silent, frightened, little woman with ...
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