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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... understanding. Were the trump of the Last Judgement to sound suddenly on a working day the musician at his piano would go on with his performance of Beethoven's sonata and the cobbler at his stall stick to his last in undisturbed ...
... understanding. Were the trump of the Last Judgement to sound suddenly on a working day the musician at his piano would go on with his performance of Beethoven's sonata and the cobbler at his stall stick to his last in undisturbed ...
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... understand. This was one of those things that don't happenunheard of things. He had no real inkling of what it meant, till Heyst said definitely: "I can lend you the amount." "You have the money?" whispered Morrison. "Do you mean here,
... understand. This was one of those things that don't happenunheard of things. He had no real inkling of what it meant, till Heyst said definitely: "I can lend you the amount." "You have the money?" whispered Morrison. "Do you mean here,
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... understand, was not proud of the episode, and he was afraid of being unmercifully chaffed. "An old bird like me! To let myself be trapped by those damned Portuguese rascals! I should never hear the last of it. We must keep it dark ...
... understand, was not proud of the episode, and he was afraid of being unmercifully chaffed. "An old bird like me! To let myself be trapped by those damned Portuguese rascals! I should never hear the last of it. We must keep it dark ...
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... understand that. He was grotesquely dense. Whenever three people came together in his hotel, he 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 ...
... understand that. He was grotesquely dense. Whenever three people came together in his hotel, he 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 ...
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