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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... novels did not sell well , and he lived in relative poverty until the commercial suc- cess of Chance ( 1914 ) secured ... novel and was arguably the most important literary innovator of the twentieth century . MARA KALNINS is Fellow in ...
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... novels — the series makes available lesser - known as well as celebrated writing . The pocket - sized hardbacks of the early years contained introductions by Virginia Woolf , T. S. Eliot , Graham Greene , and other literary figures ...
... novels — the series makes available lesser - known as well as celebrated writing . The pocket - sized hardbacks of the early years contained introductions by Virginia Woolf , T. S. Eliot , Graham Greene , and other literary figures ...
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... novels have been pub- lished to date . In the absence of authoritative texts which accurately incorporate Conrad's corrections and revisions and which remove the editorial interference , house styling , and printing errors of his ...
... novels have been pub- lished to date . In the absence of authoritative texts which accurately incorporate Conrad's corrections and revisions and which remove the editorial interference , house styling , and printing errors of his ...
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... novel Chance and was engaged in writing what was to become Victory . The comment reminds us that Conrad was a ... novels in their exploration of the delicately intricate relations between a man and a woman . In Axel Heyst , however ...
... novel Chance and was engaged in writing what was to become Victory . The comment reminds us that Conrad was a ... novels in their exploration of the delicately intricate relations between a man and a woman . In Axel Heyst , however ...
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... novel on the ' allotropic ' nature of carbon - coal and diamonds , both the same element of carbon but with different objective appearance and subjective value - will be paralleled by the changes Axel Heyst undergoes , precipitated by ...
... novel on the ' allotropic ' nature of carbon - coal and diamonds , both the same element of carbon but with different objective appearance and subjective value - will be paralleled by the changes Axel Heyst undergoes , precipitated by ...
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