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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... telling him that they wished to render his stay among the islands as pleasant as possible, and that they were ready to assist him in his plans, and so on, and after receiving Heyst's thanksyou know the usual kind of conversationhe ...
... telling him that they wished to render his stay among the islands as pleasant as possible, and that they were ready to assist him in his plans, and so on, and after receiving Heyst's thanksyou know the usual kind of conversationhe ...
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... telling you all this. I 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 ...
... telling you all this. I 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 ...
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... telling you. The Tesmans washed their hands of it. The Government cancelled those famous contracts, the talk died out ... tell us that Heyst had not paid perhaps three visits altogether to his "establishment." This was Heyst's crime, for ...
... telling you. The Tesmans washed their hands of it. The Government cancelled those famous contracts, the talk died out ... tell us that Heyst had not paid perhaps three visits altogether to his "establishment." This was Heyst's crime, for ...
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... telling us all about it afterwards. Heyst said that his father had written a lot of books. He was a philosopher. "Seems to me he must have been something of a crank, too," was Davidson's comment. "Apparently he had quarrelled with his ...
... telling us all about it afterwards. Heyst said that his father had written a lot of books. He was a philosopher. "Seems to me he must have been something of a crank, too," was Davidson's comment. "Apparently he had quarrelled with his ...
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... telling you!" Davidson slapped his thigh in concern. "Dear me! Hospital, I suppose." A natural enough surmise in a very ... tell. It's none of my business," accompanied by majestic oscillations of the hotelkeeper's head, hinting at some ...
... telling you!" Davidson slapped his thigh in concern. "Dear me! Hospital, I suppose." A natural enough surmise in a very ... tell. It's none of my business," accompanied by majestic oscillations of the hotelkeeper's head, hinting at some ...
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