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 54
... physiognomy above him on the wharf , he was obliged to dismiss the notion of common , crude lunacy . It was truly most unusual talk . Then he remembered - in his surprise he had lost sight of it- that Heyst now had a girl there . This ...
... physiognomy above him on the wharf , he was obliged to dismiss the notion of common , crude lunacy . It was truly most unusual talk . Then he remembered - in his surprise he had lost sight of it- that Heyst now had a girl there . This ...
Page 96
... physiognomy . So , after a few weeks , Schom- berg regained his outward calm , as if his indignation had dried up within him . And it was time . He was becoming a bore with his inability to talk of anything else but Heyst's unfitness to ...
... physiognomy . So , after a few weeks , Schom- berg regained his outward calm , as if his indignation had dried up within him . And it was time . He was becoming a bore with his inability to talk of anything else but Heyst's unfitness to ...
Page 98
... physiognomy . Human beings , for him , were either the objects of scandalous gossip or else the recipients of narrow strips of paper , with proper bill - heads stating the name of his hotel . " W. Schomberg , proprietor ; accounts ...
... physiognomy . Human beings , for him , were either the objects of scandalous gossip or else the recipients of narrow strips of paper , with proper bill - heads stating the name of his hotel . " W. Schomberg , proprietor ; accounts ...
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