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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... felt for her person . It was not pity alone , I take it . It was something more spontaneous , perverse and exciting . It gave him the feeling that if only he could get hold of her , no woman would belong to him so completely as this ...
... felt for her person . It was not pity alone , I take it . It was something more spontaneous , perverse and exciting . It gave him the feeling that if only he could get hold of her , no woman would belong to him so completely as this ...
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... felt this with elation , with uneasiness , with an intimate pride - and with a peculiar sinking of the heart . ( p . 165 ) She had admired him from the first [ . . . ] but she had felt him too wonder- fully difficult to know ...
... felt this with elation , with uneasiness , with an intimate pride - and with a peculiar sinking of the heart . ( p . 165 ) She had admired him from the first [ . . . ] but she had felt him too wonder- fully difficult to know ...
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... felt in her innermost depths an irresistible desire to give herself up to him more completely , by some act of absolute sacrifice . This was some- thing of which he did not seem to have an idea . He was a strange being without needs ...
... felt in her innermost depths an irresistible desire to give herself up to him more completely , by some act of absolute sacrifice . This was some- thing of which he did not seem to have an idea . He was a strange being without needs ...
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... felt something stir in there , something profound , like a new sort of life ' ( p . 229 ) , her weakness and fainting , and Heyst's bemused ' What in the world is this new mystery ' ( p . 233 ) , point to that possibility , and of ...
... felt something stir in there , something profound , like a new sort of life ' ( p . 229 ) , her weakness and fainting , and Heyst's bemused ' What in the world is this new mystery ' ( p . 233 ) , point to that possibility , and of ...
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... felt , is to convey with all the power at his command the richness , diversity , and wonder of that enchanted state , that ' magic circle ' which surrounds him and his characters , and through which we too voyage . The Shadow - Line ...
... felt , is to convey with all the power at his command the richness , diversity , and wonder of that enchanted state , that ' magic circle ' which surrounds him and his characters , and through which we too voyage . The Shadow - Line ...
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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