Search Results :: 4 results for 'Joseph Conrad'

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  #112

  Nostromo

  by Joseph Conrad

  (5 Reviews)

  173 Points

  "In the time of Spanish rule, and for many years afterwards, the town of Sulaco—the luxuriant beauty of the orange gardens bears witness to its antiquity—had never been commercially anything more..."

  

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  #373

  The Secret Agent

  by Joseph Conrad

  (3 Reviews)

  55 Points

  "Mr. Verloc, going out in the morning, left his shop nominally in charge of his brother-in-law. It could be done, because there was very little business at any time, and practically none at all..."

  

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  #338

  Lord Jim

  by Joseph Conrad

  (2 Reviews)

  65 Points

  "He was an inch, perhaps two, under six feet, powerfully built, and he advanced straight at you with a slight stoop of the shoulders, head forward, and a fixed from-under stare which made you think..."

  

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  #32

  Heart of Darkness

  by Joseph Conrad

  (18 Reviews)

  382 Points

  "The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest. The flood had made, the wind was nearly calm, and being bound down the river, the only thing for it..."

  

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