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 90
... turned on his back , flung his arms crosswise on the broad , hard bed , and lay still , open - eyed under the mosquito net , till daylight entered his room , brightened swiftly , and turned to unfailing sunlight . He got up then , went ...
... turned on his back , flung his arms crosswise on the broad , hard bed , and lay still , open - eyed under the mosquito net , till daylight entered his room , brightened swiftly , and turned to unfailing sunlight . He got up then , went ...
Page 116
... turned up here only three months ago - ay , less than three months ago- you would have found somebody very different from what I am now to talk to you . It's true . What do you think of that ? " " I scarcely know what to think . I ...
... turned up here only three months ago - ay , less than three months ago- you would have found somebody very different from what I am now to talk to you . It's true . What do you think of that ? " " I scarcely know what to think . I ...
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... turned into a banker , faced Ricardo , a rather nasty , slow - moving cat turned into a croupier . By contrast , the other faces round that table , anything between twenty and thirty , must have looked like collected samples of ...
... turned into a banker , faced Ricardo , a rather nasty , slow - moving cat turned into a croupier . By contrast , the other faces round that table , anything between twenty and thirty , must have looked like collected samples of ...
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