Victory"A drifter in the islands of the Malay Archipelago rescues a young Englishwoman from her predatory boss, and the vengeful employer sets a trio of miscreants on their trail. Joseph Conrad's first popular success abounds in the elements characteristic of his later work: an exotic setting, richly and powerfully evoked; muscular prose; complex characterization; and a compelling examination of the human capacity for good and evil"-- |
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... chimæras ; for of downright irony Heyst was not prodigal . And , may be , this was the reason why he was generally liked . At that epoch in his life , in the fulness of his physical development , of a broad , martial presence , with his ...
... chimæras ; for of downright irony Heyst was not prodigal . And , may be , this was the reason why he was generally liked . At that epoch in his life , in the fulness of his physical development , of a broad , martial presence , with his ...
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... chimæras ! And they persist . That's the worst of it - they persist . They have no right to be but they are . They ought to have aroused my fury . But I have refined everything away by this time - anger , indignation , scorn itself ...
... chimæras ! And they persist . That's the worst of it - they persist . They have no right to be but they are . They ought to have aroused my fury . But I have refined everything away by this time - anger , indignation , scorn itself ...
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