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by Joseph Conrad - 1921 - 412 pages
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VICTORY

JOSEP CONRAD - 1921 - 534 pages
...if a coalmine could be put into one's waistcoat pocket—but it can't! At the same time, there is a fascination in coal, the supreme commodity of the...considerations, the practical and the mystical, prevented Heyst—Axel Heyst— from going away. The Tropical Belt Coal Company went into liquidation. The world...
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America in Spitsbergen: The Romance of an Arctic Coal-mine, with ..., Volume 1

Nathan Haskell Dole - Coal mines and mining - 1922 - 548 pages
...a coal mine could be put into one's waistcoat pocket — but it can't. At the same time, there is a fascination in coal, the supreme commodity of the age in which we are camped like bewildered travelers in a garish, unrestful hotel. JOSEPH CONRAD I. THE STORED TREASURES OF NATURE i. PREHISTORIC...
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The Works of Joseph Conrad: The shadow line

Joseph Conrad - 1923 - 444 pages
...if a coalmine could be put into one's waistcoat pocket—but it can't! At the same time, there is a fascination in coal, the supreme commodity of the...considerations, the practical and the mystical, prevented Heyst—Axel Heyst—from going away. The Tropical Belt Coal Company went into liquidation. The world...
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The Works of Joseph Conrad, Volume 15

Joseph Conrad - 1925 - 442 pages
...a coalmine could be put into one's waistcoat pocket — but it can't! At the same time, there is a fascination in coal, the supreme commodity of the...I suppose those two considerations, the practical _and the mystical, prevented Heyst — Axel Heyst — from going away. The Tropical Belt Coal Company...
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Victory

Joseph Conrad - 1921 - 442 pages
...a coalmine could be put into one's waistcoat pocket — but it can't! At the same time, there is a fascination in coal, the supreme commodity of the...hotel. And I suppose those two considerations, the f practical and the mystical, prevented Heyst — Axel ' Heyst — from going away. The Tropical Belt...
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Coercion to Speak: Conrad's Poetics of Dialogue

Aaron Fogel - Literary Criticism - 1985 - 312 pages
...in which we are camped like bewildered travellers in a garish, unrestful hotel. And I suppose these two considerations, the practical and the mystical,...prevented Heyst — Axel Heyst — from going away. This lighthearted paragraph is about several diverse things. After a little reflection it becomes clear...
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Beyond Belief: Essays on Religion in a Post-Traditionalist World

Robert N. Bellah - Religion - 1991 - 329 pages
...world it is increasingly difficult to make sense of. Joseph Conrad describes the modern age as one "in which we are camped like bewildered travellers in a garish, unrestful hotel." But the great religious systems were not designed to deliver us from this particular hotel. Their plans...
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The Columbia History of the British Novel

John Richetti, John Bender, Deirdre David, Michael Seidel - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 1094 pages
...relationships based upon personal ties with relationships based on economic consideration. Victory depicts an "age in which we are camped like bewildered travellers in a garish, unrestful hotel." Schomberg's hotel becomes a mnemonic device to recall that image, and Schomberg's malice, enervation,...
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Joseph Conrad and the Anthropological Dilemma: "bewildered Traveller"

John Wylie Griffith - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1995 - 262 pages
...me and yet so far away, some little revelation might be vouchsafed me. Soren Kierkegaard, EitherlOr5 the age in which we are camped like bewildered travellers in a garish unrestful horel. (Vj) Joseph Conrad's works can usefully be placed in the context of historical and contemporary...
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Essays on Conrad

Ian Watt - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 230 pages
...particular social or economic or intellectual system. He thought of his own age, he wrote in Victory, as one 'in which we are camped like bewildered travellers in a garish, unrestful hotel' (p. 3); and the best we could do at any time was to assume that in any given circumstance the direction...
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