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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... lips and belonging to other men's less perfect, less pathetic moods. The same observation will apply mutatis mutandis to Mr. Jones, who is built on a much slenderer connection. Mr. Jones (or whatever his name was) did not drift away ...
... lips and belonging to other men's less perfect, less pathetic moods. The same observation will apply mutatis mutandis to Mr. Jones, who is built on a much slenderer connection. Mr. Jones (or whatever his name was) did not drift away ...
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... lips, his very chestnut beard, looking full of malice. "Evening, gentlemen. Have you got all you want? So! Good! Well, I am told the jungle has choked the very sheds in Black Diamond Bay. Fact. He's a hermit in the wilderness now. But ...
... lips, his very chestnut beard, looking full of malice. "Evening, gentlemen. Have you got all you want? So! Good! Well, I am told the jungle has choked the very sheds in Black Diamond Bay. Fact. He's a hermit in the wilderness now. But ...
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... lips seemed made of wood. "They stayed here over a month. They are gone now. They played every evening." "Pretty good, were they?" To this she said nothing; and as she kept on staring fixedly in front of her, her silence disconcerted ...
... lips seemed made of wood. "They stayed here over a month. They are gone now. They played every evening." "Pretty good, were they?" To this she said nothing; and as she kept on staring fixedly in front of her, her silence disconcerted ...
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... lips, because just then the head boy appeared with a loaded tray, on his way out. Schomberg went to the door and greeted the customers outside, but did not join them. He remained blocking half the doorway, with his back to the room, and ...
... lips, because just then the head boy appeared with a loaded tray, on his way out. Schomberg went to the door and greeted the customers outside, but did not join them. He remained blocking half the doorway, with his back to the room, and ...
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