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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Joseph Conrad. Q Joseph Conrad Start Classics VICTORY: AN ISLAND TALE By Joseph Conrad. Front Cover.
Joseph Conrad. Q Joseph Conrad Start Classics VICTORY: AN ISLAND TALE By Joseph Conrad. Front Cover.
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Joseph Conrad. VICTORY: AN ISLAND TALE By Joseph Conrad Start Publishing LLC Copyright © 2013 by Start Publishing LLC.
Joseph Conrad. VICTORY: AN ISLAND TALE By Joseph Conrad Start Publishing LLC Copyright © 2013 by Start Publishing LLC.
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... island of St. Thomas in the West Indies (in the year '75) where we found him one hot afternoon extended on three chairs, all alone in the loud buzzing of flies to which his immobility and his cadaverous aspect gave a most gruesome ...
... island of St. Thomas in the West Indies (in the year '75) where we found him one hot afternoon extended on three chairs, all alone in the loud buzzing of flies to which his immobility and his cadaverous aspect gave a most gruesome ...
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... island. An island is but the top of a mountain. Axel Heyst, perched on it immovably, was surrounded, instead of the imponderable stormy and transparent ocean of air merging into infinity, by a tepid, shallow sea; a passionless offshoot ...
... island. An island is but the top of a mountain. Axel Heyst, perched on it immovably, was surrounded, instead of the imponderable stormy and transparent ocean of air merging into infinity, by a tepid, shallow sea; a passionless offshoot ...
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... Island" of the chartswas dazzling; and in the flood of cold light Heyst could see his immediate surroundings, which ... islands and exploit them locally. And, Lord knows, there were any amount of outcrops. It was Heyst who had located ...
... Island" of the chartswas dazzling; and in the flood of cold light Heyst could see his immediate surroundings, which ... islands and exploit them locally. And, Lord knows, there were any amount of outcrops. It was Heyst who had located ...
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