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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... took the nearest short cutthrough the wall. This bestial apparition and a certain enormous buck nigger encountered in Haiti only a couple of months afterwards, have fixed my conception of blind, furious, unreasoning rage, as manifested ...
... took the nearest short cutthrough the wall. This bestial apparition and a certain enormous buck nigger encountered in Haiti only a couple of months afterwards, have fixed my conception of blind, furious, unreasoning rage, as manifested ...
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... took good care that Heyst should be with them. "I hope the fellow did not go and drown himself," he would add with a comical earnestness that ought to have made us shudder; only our crowd was superficial, and did not apprehend the ...
... took good care that Heyst should be with them. "I hope the fellow did not go and drown himself," he would add with a comical earnestness that ought to have made us shudder; only our crowd was superficial, and did not apprehend the ...
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... took about two days, he volunteered other hintsfor you could not call it information about his history. And Davidson was interested. He was interested not because the hints were exciting but because of that innate curiosity about our ...
... took about two days, he volunteered other hintsfor you could not call it information about his history. And Davidson was interested. He was interested not because the hints were exciting but because of that innate curiosity about our ...
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... took a fancy to that fiddleplaying girl, and" "And she to him, apparently," I suggested. "Wonderfully quick work," reflected Davidson. "What do you think will come of it?" "Repentance, I should say. But how is it that Mrs. Schomberg has ...
... took a fancy to that fiddleplaying girl, and" "And she to him, apparently," I suggested. "Wonderfully quick work," reflected Davidson. "What do you think will come of it?" "Repentance, I should say. But how is it that Mrs. Schomberg has ...
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... took a fancy to some pretty onebut it was not for running away with her. Oh dear no! It needed a lunatic like Heyst. "Only think what it means," wheezed Davidson, imaginative under his invincible placidity. "Just only try to think ...
... took a fancy to some pretty onebut it was not for running away with her. Oh dear no! It needed a lunatic like Heyst. "Only think what it means," wheezed Davidson, imaginative under his invincible placidity. "Just only try to think ...
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