Victory: An Island TaleOxford University Press, 2004 - 333 páginas 'Victory, don't forget, has come out of my innermost self.' Victory was the last of Conrad's novels to be set in the Malay Archipelago. Sub-titled 'An Island Tale', it tells the story of Axel Heyst who, damaged by his dead father's nihilistic philosophy, has retreated from the world of commerce and colonial exploration to live alone on the island ofSamburan. But Heyst's solitary existence ends when he rescues an English girl from her rapacious patron and takes her off to his retreat. She in turn recalls him to love and life, until the world breaks in on them once more with tragic consequences. In this love story Conrad created two of hispsychologically most complex and compelling characters in a narrative of great erotic power. This new edition uses the English first edition text and has a new chronology and bibliography. |
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... Heart of Darkness ' , Lord Jim , and Nostromo display tech- nical complexities which have established him as one of the first English ' Modernists ' . He is also noted for the unprecedented vivid- ness with which he communicates a ...
... Heart of Darkness ' , Lord Jim , and Nostromo display tech- nical complexities which have established him as one of the first English ' Modernists ' . He is also noted for the unprecedented vivid- ness with which he communicates a ...
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... 3 Joseph Conrad : The Major Phase ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1978 ) . + ' Books ' ( 1905 ) , in Notes on Life and Letters ( London : Dent Collected Edition , 1949 ) , 6 . ' Heart of Darkness ' opens on board a craft III.
... 3 Joseph Conrad : The Major Phase ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1978 ) . + ' Books ' ( 1905 ) , in Notes on Life and Letters ( London : Dent Collected Edition , 1949 ) , 6 . ' Heart of Darkness ' opens on board a craft III.
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An Island Tale Joseph Conrad, Mara Kalnins. ' Heart of Darkness ' opens on board a craft anchored off the Thames before Marlow takes his auditors on an imaginative voyage into the dark places of the human psyche ; Lord Jim begins with ...
An Island Tale Joseph Conrad, Mara Kalnins. ' Heart of Darkness ' opens on board a craft anchored off the Thames before Marlow takes his auditors on an imaginative voyage into the dark places of the human psyche ; Lord Jim begins with ...
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... heart ' is echoed in Chance with specific reference to women in Marlow's comment : " " You say I don't know women . Maybe . It's just as well not to come too close to the shrine . But I have a clear notion of woman . " " In Victory ...
... heart ' is echoed in Chance with specific reference to women in Marlow's comment : " " You say I don't know women . Maybe . It's just as well not to come too close to the shrine . But I have a clear notion of woman . " " In Victory ...
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... Heart of Darkness ' or the silver of the San Tomé mine in Nostromo ) here gives way to a primary concern with presenting and clarifying the dynamics of sexuality . In this respect the Captain Anthony of Chance , as F. R. Leavis first ...
... Heart of Darkness ' or the silver of the San Tomé mine in Nostromo ) here gives way to a primary concern with presenting and clarifying the dynamics of sexuality . In this respect the Captain Anthony of Chance , as F. R. Leavis first ...
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Alfuro Almayer's Folly arms asked Axel Heyst believe boat bungalow called chair chimæras Chinaman D. H. Lawrence Davidson death door doorway eyes face faint feeling fellow felt frightened gentleman girl glance gone governor hand head heard Heart of Darkness hotel-keeper human island jetty Jones Joseph Conrad Lena light lips looked Lord Jim Malay Malay Archipelago Martin matter mean mind Morrison moved murmured mysterious never night novel Number OXFORD WORLD'S CLASSICS Pedro perhaps Ricardo Robert Hampson round Samburan Schomberg seemed shadow shoulders side sight silence smile sort soul sound Sourabaya speak stare strange suddenly T. S. Eliot table d'hôte Tadeusz Bobrowski talk tell Tesmans There's thing thought told tone Tropical Belt Coal turned understand University Press verandah Victory voice Wang watched wharf What's whispered woman wonder words Zangiacomo