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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... perhaps in an unconscious impulse to escape the life- denying influence of the father's pessimistic teachings ( ' He told me that directly his father died he lit out into the wide world on his own ' ( p . 28 ) ) — and continued in the ...
... perhaps in an unconscious impulse to escape the life- denying influence of the father's pessimistic teachings ( ' He told me that directly his father died he lit out into the wide world on his own ' ( p . 28 ) ) — and continued in the ...
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... perhaps all , of my ideas about myself , in particular my sense of my own moral and social identity , are intelligible only in terms of the social network in which I am ( the metaphor must not be pressed too far ) an element . " Yet it ...
... perhaps all , of my ideas about myself , in particular my sense of my own moral and social identity , are intelligible only in terms of the social network in which I am ( the metaphor must not be pressed too far ) an element . " Yet it ...
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... perhaps half a truth , 18 Cited in The Philosophy Encyclopedia , vol . vii , ed . Paul Edwards ( London : Collier- Macmillan , 1967 ) , 330 . 19 ' Preface ' to The Nigger of the Narcissus ' , p . xli . or half a life . For in another ...
... perhaps half a truth , 18 Cited in The Philosophy Encyclopedia , vol . vii , ed . Paul Edwards ( London : Collier- Macmillan , 1967 ) , 330 . 19 ' Preface ' to The Nigger of the Narcissus ' , p . xli . or half a life . For in another ...
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... perhaps he would not get tired of her so very soon [ ... ] she would try to hold him as long as she could - till her fainting arms , her sinking soul , could cling to him no more . ( p . 187 ) Instinctively recognizing the illusory ...
... perhaps he would not get tired of her so very soon [ ... ] she would try to hold him as long as she could - till her fainting arms , her sinking soul , could cling to him no more . ( p . 187 ) Instinctively recognizing the illusory ...
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... perhaps the first impulse , on earth ! The barbed hook , baited with the illusion of progress , to bring out of the lightless void the shoals of unnumbered generations ! ( p . 133 ) These lines are often cited out of context as a ...
... perhaps the first impulse , on earth ! The barbed hook , baited with the illusion of progress , to bring out of the lightless void the shoals of unnumbered generations ! ( p . 133 ) These lines are often cited out of context as a ...
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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