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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... seen! There could be no mistake. I was in too idle a mood to imagine such a gratuitous barbarity. It may have been playfulness, yet the girl jumped up as if she had been stung by a wasp. It may have been playfulness. Yet I saw plainly ...
... seen! There could be no mistake. I was in too idle a mood to imagine such a gratuitous barbarity. It may have been playfulness, yet the girl jumped up as if she had been stung by a wasp. It may have been playfulness. Yet I saw plainly ...
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... seen there. It just touched Saigon, and he was likewise seen there once. Perhaps these were his attempts to break out. If so, they were failures. The enchantment must have been an unbreakable one. The managerthe man who heard the ...
... seen there. It just touched Saigon, and he was likewise seen there once. Perhaps these were his attempts to break out. If so, they were failures. The enchantment must have been an unbreakable one. The managerthe man who heard the ...
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... seen how we live. Now you shall have the opportunity to see how some of us end; for it is the end, for me. I can't deceive myself any longer. You see itdon't your?" Morrison had pulled himself together, but one felt the snapping strain ...
... seen how we live. Now you shall have the opportunity to see how some of us end; for it is the end, for me. I can't deceive myself any longer. You see itdon't your?" Morrison had pulled himself together, but one felt the snapping strain ...
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... seen him." As I have said, we were not much interested; but Schomberg, of course, could not understand that. He was grotesquely dense. Whenever three people came together in his hotel, he took good care that Heyst should be with them ...
... seen him." As I have said, we were not much interested; but Schomberg, of course, could not understand that. He was grotesquely dense. Whenever three people came together in his hotel, he took good care that Heyst should be with them ...
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... seen approaching a group of his customers. He was obviously in high glee. He squared his manly chest with great importance. "Gentlemen, I have news of him. Who? why, that Swede. He is still on Samburan. He's never been away from it. The ...
... seen approaching a group of his customers. He was obviously in high glee. He squared his manly chest with great importance. "Gentlemen, I have news of him. Who? why, that Swede. He is still on Samburan. He's never been away from it. The ...
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