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 245
... steps of the verandah . Heyst , glancing back casually , saw behind him still another light , —the light of the ... step , he saw her feet and the bottom part of her dress . The rest of her person was suggested dimly as high as her waist ...
... steps of the verandah . Heyst , glancing back casually , saw behind him still another light , —the light of the ... step , he saw her feet and the bottom part of her dress . The rest of her person was suggested dimly as high as her waist ...
Page 252
... steps of her bare feet gleaming like marble on the over- shadowed matting of the floor . The fall of her lighted ... step . " What is it you have missed ? " she asked again . Heyst turned his back altogether on the table . The black ...
... steps of her bare feet gleaming like marble on the over- shadowed matting of the floor . The fall of her lighted ... step . " What is it you have missed ? " she asked again . Heyst turned his back altogether on the table . The black ...
Page 393
... steps after leaving me , and then he would have walked up to me and planted the same knife between my ribs . He has ... step forward , under the slight impulse of that slender hand clasping his arm with a thin , bony grasp . " Behold ...
... steps after leaving me , and then he would have walked up to me and planted the same knife between my ribs . He has ... step forward , under the slight impulse of that slender hand clasping his arm with a thin , bony grasp . " Behold ...
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