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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... wonder which lurks still at the bottom of our old humanity. "Victory" was the last word I had written in peacetime. It was the last literary thought which had occurred to me before the doors of the Temple of Janus flying open with a ...
... wonder which lurks still at the bottom of our old humanity. "Victory" was the last word I had written in peacetime. It was the last literary thought which had occurred to me before the doors of the Temple of Janus flying open with a ...
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... wonder what the point was. I never saw him again because I believe he went straight on board a mailboat which left within the hour for other ports of call in the direction of Aspinall. Mr. Jones's characteristic insolence belongs to ...
... wonder what the point was. I never saw him again because I believe he went straight on board a mailboat which left within the hour for other ports of call in the direction of Aspinall. Mr. Jones's characteristic insolence belongs to ...
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... wonder overmuch. You see we had on the whole liked him well enough. And liking is not sufficient to keep going the interest one takes in a human being. With hatred, apparently, it is otherwise. Schomberg couldn't forget Heyst. The keen ...
... wonder overmuch. You see we had on the whole liked him well enough. And liking is not sufficient to keep going the interest one takes in a human being. With hatred, apparently, it is otherwise. Schomberg couldn't forget Heyst. The keen ...
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... wonder of it, as trying to converse with a mechanism. A smile played about the fat features of Davidson; the smile of a man making an amusing experiment. He spoke again to her: "But the other members of that orchestra were real Italians ...
... wonder of it, as trying to converse with a mechanism. A smile played about the fat features of Davidson; the smile of a man making an amusing experiment. He spoke again to her: "But the other members of that orchestra were real Italians ...
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... wonder was that they had been left alone so long. The drowsy afternoon was slipping by. Footsteps and voices resounded on the verandaI beg pardon, the piazza; the scraping of chairs, the ping of a smitten bell. Customers were turning up ...
... wonder was that they had been left alone so long. The drowsy afternoon was slipping by. Footsteps and voices resounded on the verandaI beg pardon, the piazza; the scraping of chairs, the ping of a smitten bell. Customers were turning up ...
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answer appeared arms asked believe better boat bungalow chair Chinaman clear close coming course dark Davidson don't door doubt existence expected expression eyes face fact feeling feet fellow felt gave girl give glance gone governor hand head hear heard Heyst hold island Jones keep knew leaving Lena light lips living looked manner matter mean mind Morrison moved movement murmured mysterious nature never night observed once passed Pedro perhaps raised reason remained remarked Ricardo round Schomberg seemed seen shoulders side sight silence smile sort sound speak steps stopped strange suddenly suppose surprised talk tell There's thing thought told tone took trouble turned understand veranda voice waited walked Wang watched whispered woman wonder