Victory, an Island TaleClassic Books Company, 1929 - 396 pages |
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Page xi
... give my readers a wrong impression , since a marked incongruity between a man and his surroundings is often a very mis- leading circumstance . We became very friendly for a time and I would not like to expose him to unpleasant ...
... give my readers a wrong impression , since a marked incongruity between a man and his surroundings is often a very mis- leading circumstance . We became very friendly for a time and I would not like to expose him to unpleasant ...
Page xii
... or even at me ( he would not even look up but kept bis eyes fixed on the deck ) but more as if communing in a low voice with his familiar devil . Now and then he would give me a glance and make the hairs xii AUTHOR'S NOTE.
... or even at me ( he would not even look up but kept bis eyes fixed on the deck ) but more as if communing in a low voice with his familiar devil . Now and then he would give me a glance and make the hairs xii AUTHOR'S NOTE.
Page xiii
Joseph Conrad. he would give me a glance and make the hairs of his stiff little moustache stir quaintly . His eyes were green and to this day every cat I see reminds me of the exact contour of his face . What he was travelling for or ...
Joseph Conrad. he would give me a glance and make the hairs of his stiff little moustache stir quaintly . His eyes were green and to this day every cat I see reminds me of the exact contour of his face . What he was travelling for or ...
Page xiv
... give to Ricardo . The reader need not be told that I have not forgotten him , though . My contact with the faithful Pedro was much shorter and my observation of him was less complete but incomparably more anxious . It ended in a sudden ...
... give to Ricardo . The reader need not be told that I have not forgotten him , though . My contact with the faithful Pedro was much shorter and my observation of him was less complete but incomparably more anxious . It ended in a sudden ...
Page 13
... Give me fever . Give me plague . They are diseases . One gets over them . But I am being murdered . I am being murdered by the Portuguese . The gang here downed me at last among them . I am to have my throat cut the day after to ...
... Give me fever . Give me plague . They are diseases . One gets over them . But I am being murdered . I am being murdered by the Portuguese . The gang here downed me at last among them . I am to have my throat cut the day after to ...
Contents
Section 21 | 224 |
Section 22 | 233 |
Section 23 | 245 |
Section 24 | 250 |
Section 25 | 260 |
Section 26 | 281 |
Section 27 | 290 |
Section 28 | 299 |
Section 9 | 77 |
Section 10 | 91 |
Section 11 | 98 |
Section 12 | 105 |
Section 13 | 118 |
Section 14 | 135 |
Section 15 | 153 |
Section 16 | 173 |
Section 17 | 182 |
Section 18 | 185 |
Section 19 | 201 |
Section 20 | 216 |
Section 29 | 306 |
Section 30 | 314 |
Section 31 | 332 |
Section 32 | 338 |
Section 33 | 343 |
Section 34 | 356 |
Section 35 | 368 |
Section 36 | 376 |
Section 37 | 394 |
Section 38 | 403 |
Section 39 | 408 |
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Page xv - It seems to me but natural that those three buried in a corner of my memory should suddenly get out into the light of the world — so natural that I offer no excuse for their existence.