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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... strange if he had; and all these debts entered in the pocketbook weren't good enough to raise a millrei onlet alone a shilling. The Portuguese officials begged him not to distress himself. They gave him a week's grace, and then proposed ...
... strange if he had; and all these debts entered in the pocketbook weren't good enough to raise a millrei onlet alone a shilling. The Portuguese officials begged him not to distress himself. They gave him a week's grace, and then proposed ...
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... strange country." In truth, he pined after the CapricornI don't mean only the tropic; I mean the ship too. Finally he went into Dorsetshire to see his people, caught a bad cold, and died with extraordinary precipitation in the bosom of ...
... strange country." In truth, he pined after the CapricornI don't mean only the tropic; I mean the ship too. Finally he went into Dorsetshire to see his people, caught a bad cold, and died with extraordinary precipitation in the bosom of ...
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... an ancient lemon. He was small and wizenedwhich was strange, because generally a Chinaman, as he grows in prosperity, puts on inches of girth and stature. To serve a Chinese firm is not so bad. Once they become convinced you deal.
... an ancient lemon. He was small and wizenedwhich was strange, because generally a Chinaman, as he grows in prosperity, puts on inches of girth and stature. To serve a Chinese firm is not so bad. Once they become convinced you deal.
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... strange man to such a spot. Heyst had, no doubt, told her the truth. He was a gentleman. But no words could do justice to the conditions of life on Samburan. A desert island was nothing to it. Moreover, when you were cast away on a ...
... strange man to such a spot. Heyst had, no doubt, told her the truth. He was a gentleman. But no words could do justice to the conditions of life on Samburan. A desert island was nothing to it. Moreover, when you were cast away on a ...
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