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Page 308
... novel , The Celebrity , appeared in 1898. His next , Richard Carvel ( 1899 ) , a novel of Revolutionary Mary- land in which the hero serves as a naval officer under John Paul Jones , sold nearly 1,000,000 copies . Then followed another ...
... novel , The Celebrity , appeared in 1898. His next , Richard Carvel ( 1899 ) , a novel of Revolutionary Mary- land in which the hero serves as a naval officer under John Paul Jones , sold nearly 1,000,000 copies . Then followed another ...
Page 548
... novel The Nigger of the " Narcissus , " the story of an egocentric black sailor's deterioration and death aboard ship . At about this time Conrad began writing his earliest known letters in the English lan- guage . In between subsequent ...
... novel The Nigger of the " Narcissus , " the story of an egocentric black sailor's deterioration and death aboard ship . At about this time Conrad began writing his earliest known letters in the English lan- guage . In between subsequent ...
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... novel , Il trionfo della morte ( 1894 ; The Triumph of Death ) , appeared . It and his next major novel , Le vergini delle rocce ( 1896 ; The Maidens of the Rocks ) , featured viciously self- seeking and thoroughly amoral Nietzschean ...
... novel , Il trionfo della morte ( 1894 ; The Triumph of Death ) , appeared . It and his next major novel , Le vergini delle rocce ( 1896 ; The Maidens of the Rocks ) , featured viciously self- seeking and thoroughly amoral Nietzschean ...
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