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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Page 37
... hotel - keeper departed , muttering to himself . Davidson heard him gnash his teeth as he went . Davidson sat alone with the billiard - tables as if there had been not a soul staying in the hotel . His placidity was so genuine that he ...
... hotel - keeper departed , muttering to himself . Davidson heard him gnash his teeth as he went . Davidson sat alone with the billiard - tables as if there had been not a soul staying in the hotel . His placidity was so genuine that he ...
Page 46
... hotel - keeper had been mainly to make Mrs. Schomberg safe from suspicion ; but he would fain have heard something more of Heyst's exploit from another point of view . It was a shrewd try . It was successful in a rather startling way ...
... hotel - keeper had been mainly to make Mrs. Schomberg safe from suspicion ; but he would fain have heard something more of Heyst's exploit from another point of view . It was a shrewd try . It was successful in a rather startling way ...
Page 155
... hotel - keeper's haunting idea . It was always present in his brain , and now it came forward evoked by a purely fortuitous expression . No , nobody could run off with a continent ; but Heyst had run off with the girl ! Ricardo could ...
... hotel - keeper's haunting idea . It was always present in his brain , and now it came forward evoked by a purely fortuitous expression . No , nobody could run off with a continent ; but Heyst had run off with the girl ! Ricardo could ...
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