 Victory— that we all live in an "age in which we are camped like bewildered travellers in a garish, unrestful hotel...  Victory - Page 3by Joseph Conrad - 1921Full view - About this book
 | JOSEP CONRAD - 1921 - 534 pages
...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...considerations, the practical and the mystical, prevented Heyst—Axel Heyst— from going away. The Tropical Belt Coal Company went into liquidation. The world... | |
 | Nathan Haskell Dole - Coal mines and mining - 1922 - 548 pages
...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 1. PREHISTORIC... | |
 | Nathan Haskell Dole - Coal mines and mining - 1922 - 550 pages
...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 1. PREHISTORIC... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1923 - 444 pages
...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...considerations, the practical and the mystical, prevented Heyst—Axel Heyst—from going away. The Tropical Belt Coal Company went into liquidation. The world... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - English fiction - 1924 - 440 pages
...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...those two considerations, the ''practical and the talystical, prevented Heyst — Axel Heyst — from going away. The Tropical Belt Coal Company went... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1925 - 442 pages
...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...I suppose those two considerations, the practical _and the mystical, prevented Heyst — Axel Heyst — from going away. The Tropical Belt Coal Company... | |
 | Aaron Fogel - Literary Criticism - 1985 - 312 pages
...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...travellers in a garish, unrestful hotel. And I suppose these two considerations, the practical and the mystical, prevented Heyst — Axel Heyst — from going... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | 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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