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 xi
... leaving a trace . I wondered where he had gone to but now I know . He vanished from my ken only to drift into this adventure that , unavoidable , waited for him in a world which he persisted in look- ing upon as a malevolent shadow ...
... leaving a trace . I wondered where he had gone to but now I know . He vanished from my ken only to drift into this adventure that , unavoidable , waited for him in a world which he persisted in look- ing upon as a malevolent shadow ...
Page 91
... leaving school at the age of eighteen , he had lived with the elder Heyst , who was then writing his last book . In this work , at the end of his life , he claimed for man- kind that right to absolute moral and intellectual liberty of ...
... leaving school at the age of eighteen , he had lived with the elder Heyst , who was then writing his last book . In this work , at the end of his life , he claimed for man- kind that right to absolute moral and intellectual liberty of ...
Page 344
... leaving an added brightness on the face of the world . " It's a very ridiculous thing , " Heyst went on ; " but then it is the product of honest fear - fear of the un- known , of the incomprehensible . It's pathetic , too , in a way ...
... leaving an added brightness on the face of the world . " It's a very ridiculous thing , " Heyst went on ; " but then it is the product of honest fear - fear of the un- known , of the incomprehensible . It's pathetic , too , in a way ...
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