Youth, and Two Other Stories: By Joseph Conrad ..., Volum 26Doubleday, Page & Company, 1903 - 339 pàgines Heart of darkness: The narrator, Marlowe, journeys on business deep into the heart of Africa. There he encounters Kurtz, an idealist apparently crazed and depraved by his power over the natives, and the meeting prompts Marlowe to reflect on the darkness at the heart of all men. |
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Pàgina ix
... course of years . The origins of that gentleman ( no- body as far as I know has ever hinted that he was any- thing but that ) —his origins have been the subject of some literary speculation of , I am glad to say , a friendly nature ...
... course of years . The origins of that gentleman ( no- body as far as I know has ever hinted that he was any- thing but that ) —his origins have been the subject of some literary speculation of , I am glad to say , a friendly nature ...
Pàgina 5
... course , and between those two old chaps I felt like a small boy between two grandfathers . " The ship also was old . Her name was the Judea . Queer name , isn't it ? She belonged to a man Wilmer , Wilcox - some name like that ; but he ...
... course , and between those two old chaps I felt like a small boy between two grandfathers . " The ship also was old . Her name was the Judea . Queer name , isn't it ? She belonged to a man Wilmer , Wilcox - some name like that ; but he ...
Pàgina 9
... course in the con- fusion we did not hear him shouting . He looked abashed . She said cheerfully , " I suppose it does not matter my losing the train now ? ' ' No , Jenny - you go below and get warm , ' he growled . Then to us : ' A ...
... course in the con- fusion we did not hear him shouting . He looked abashed . She said cheerfully , " I suppose it does not matter my losing the train now ? ' ' No , Jenny - you go below and get warm , ' he growled . Then to us : ' A ...
Pàgina 20
... glided imperceptibly , enveloped in languid and unclean vapours , in a lazy cloud that drifted to leeward , light and slow ; a pestiferous cloud defiling the splendour of sea and sky . " All this time of course we saw no fire 20 YOUTH.
... glided imperceptibly , enveloped in languid and unclean vapours , in a lazy cloud that drifted to leeward , light and slow ; a pestiferous cloud defiling the splendour of sea and sky . " All this time of course we saw no fire 20 YOUTH.
Pàgina 21
... course . No man could remain more than a minute below . Mahon , who went first , fainted there , and the man who went to fetch him out did likewise . We lugged them out on deck . Then I leaped down to show how easily it could be done ...
... course . No man could remain more than a minute below . Mahon , who went first , fainted there , and the man who went to fetch him out did likewise . We lugged them out on deck . Then I leaped down to show how easily it could be done ...
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Pàgina 162 - Marlow ceased, and sat apart, indistinct and silent, in the pose of a meditating Buddha. Nobody moved for a time. "We have lost the first of the ebb," said the Director suddenly. I raised my head. The offing was barred by a black bank of clouds, and the tranquil waterway leading to the uttermost ends of the earth flowed sombre under an overcast sky— seemed to lead into the heart of an immense darkness.
Pàgina 150 - I was within a hair's breadth of the last opportunity for pronouncement, and I found with humiliation that probably I would have nothing to say. This is the reason why I affirm that Kurtz was a remarkable man. He had something to say. He said it.
Pàgina 37 - ... And I see a bay, a wide bay, smooth as glass and polished like ice, shimmering in the dark. A red light burns far off upon the gloom of the land, and the night is soft and warm. We drag at the oars with aching arms, and suddenly a puff of wind, a puff faint and tepid and laden with strange...
Pàgina 97 - Who's that grunting? You wonder I didn't go ashore for a howl and a dance? Well, no - I didn't. Fine sentiments, you say? Fine sentiments, be hanged! I had no time. I had to mess about with white-lead and strips of woolen blanket helping to put bandages on those leaky steam-pipes - I tell you.
Pàgina 93 - The broadening waters flowed through a mob of wooded islands; you lost your way on that river as you would in a desert, and butted all day long against shoals, trying to find the channel, till you thought yourself bewitched and cut off forever from everything you had known once— somewhere— far away— in another existence perhaps.
Pàgina 82 - You know I hate, detest, and can't bear a lie, not because I am straighter than the rest of us, but simply because it appals me. There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies — which is exactly what I hate and detest in the world — what I want to forget.
Pàgina 147 - The brown current ran swiftly out of the heart of darkness, bearing us down towards the sea with twice the speed of our upward progress; and Kurtz's life was running swiftly, too, ebbing, ebbing out of his heart into the sea of inexorable time. The manager was very placid, he had no vital anxieties now, he took us both in with a comprehensive and satisfied glance: the 'affair' had come off as well as could be wished. I saw the time approaching when I would be left alone of the party of 'unsound method.
Pàgina 4 - You fellows know there are those voyages that seem ordered for the illustration of life, that might stand for a symbol of existence. You fight, work, sweat, nearly kill yourself, sometimes do kill yourself, trying to accomplish something— and you can't. Not from any fault of yours. You simply can do nothing, neither great nor little— not a thing in the world— not even marry an old maid, or get a wretched 6oo-ton cargo of coal to its port of destination.
Pàgina 82 - Yet somehow it didn't bring any image with it — no more than if I had been told an angel or a fiend was in there. I believed it in the same way one of you might believe there are inhabitants in the planet Mars. I knew once a Scotch sailmaker who was certain, dead sure, there were people in Mars. If you asked him for some idea how they looked and behaved, he would get shy and mutter something about 'walking on all-fours.
Pàgina 39 - Oh, my goodness! I say. . . . This is the Celestial from Singapore on her return trip. I'll arrange with your captain in the morning, . . . and, ... I say, . . . did you hear me just now?" " 'I should think the whole bay heard you.' "'I thought you were a shore-boat. Now, look here— this infernal lazy scoundrel of a caretaker has gone to sleep again— curse him. The light is out, and I nearly ran foul of the end of this damned jetty. This is the third time he plays me this trick.