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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... suppose those two considerations, the practical and the mystical, prevented HeystAxel Heystfrom going away. The Tropical Belt Coal Company went into liquidation. The world of finance is a mysterious world in which, incredible as the ...
... suppose those two considerations, the practical and the mystical, prevented HeystAxel Heystfrom going away. The Tropical Belt Coal Company went into liquidation. The world of finance is a mysterious world in which, incredible as the ...
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... suppose seeing a thoroughly white man made it impossible to keep my trouble to myself. Words can't do it justice; but since I've told you so much I may as well tell you more. Listen. This morning on board, in my cabin I went down on my ...
... suppose seeing a thoroughly white man made it impossible to keep my trouble to myself. Words can't do it justice; but since I've told you so much I may as well tell you more. Listen. This morning on board, in my cabin I went down on my ...
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... suppose." A natural enough surmise in a very feverish locality. The Lieutenant of the Reserve only pursed up his mouth and raised his eyebrows without looking at him. It might have meant anything, but Davidson dismissed the hospital ...
... suppose." A natural enough surmise in a very feverish locality. The Lieutenant of the Reserve only pursed up his mouth and raised his eyebrows without looking at him. It might have meant anything, but Davidson dismissed the hospital ...
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... suppose these women are not much better than slaves really. Was that fellow with the dyed beard decent in his way?" The mechanism remained silent. The sympathetic soul of Davidson drew its own conclusions. "Beastly life for these women ...
... suppose these women are not much better than slaves really. Was that fellow with the dyed beard decent in his way?" The mechanism remained silent. The sympathetic soul of Davidson drew its own conclusions. "Beastly life for these women ...
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... suppose it was more than a little linen and a couple of those white frocks they wear on the platform." Davidson pursued his own train of thought. He supposed that such a thing had never been heard of in the history of the tropics. For ...
... suppose it was more than a little linen and a couple of those white frocks they wear on the platform." Davidson pursued his own train of thought. He supposed that such a thing had never been heard of in the history of the tropics. For ...
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