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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... to hear that one morning I was told without any particular emotion by the padrone of the schooner that the "rich man" down there was dead: He had died in the night. I don't remember ever being so moved by the desolate end of.
... to hear that one morning I was told without any particular emotion by the padrone of the schooner that the "rich man" down there was dead: He had died in the night. I don't remember ever being so moved by the desolate end of.
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Joseph Conrad. remember ever being so moved by the desolate end of a complete stranger. I looked down the skylight, and there was the devoted Martin busy cording cowhide trunks belonging to the deceased whose white beard and hooked nose ...
Joseph Conrad. remember ever being so moved by the desolate end of a complete stranger. I looked down the skylight, and there was the devoted Martin busy cording cowhide trunks belonging to the deceased whose white beard and hooked nose ...
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... moved her head the least bit. Davidson, after the shock which made him sit up, went slack all over. "Heyst! Such a perfect gentleman!" he exclaimed weakly. Mrs. Schomberg did not seem to have heard him. This startling fact did not tally ...
... moved her head the least bit. Davidson, after the shock which made him sit up, went slack all over. "Heyst! Such a perfect gentleman!" he exclaimed weakly. Mrs. Schomberg did not seem to have heard him. This startling fact did not tally ...
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... moved by that disinterested passion for delivering a woman to a man which in respectable spheres is called matchmaking?a highly irregular example of it! "It must have been a very small bundle," remarked Davidson further. "I imagine the ...
... moved by that disinterested passion for delivering a woman to a man which in respectable spheres is called matchmaking?a highly irregular example of it! "It must have been a very small bundle," remarked Davidson further. "I imagine the ...
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