 | Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 410 pagine
...house on the hill — made me uneasy. There was no sign on the face of nature of this amazing tale that was not so much told as suggested to me in desolate...patient expectation, of unapproachable silence. The Russian was explaining to me that it was only lately that Mr. Kurtz had come down to the river, bringing... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 404 pagine
...house on the hill — made me uneasy. There was no sign on the face of nature of this amazing tale that was not so much told as suggested to me in desolate...patient expectation, of unapproachable silence. The Russian was explaining to me that it was only lately that Mr. Kurtz had come down to the river, bringing... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1921 - 440 pagine
...house on the hill — made me uneasy. There was no sign on the face of nature of this amazing tale that was not so much told as suggested to me in desolate...patient expectation, of unapproachable silence. The Russian was explaining to me that it was only lately that Mr. Kurtz had come down to the river, bringing... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 368 pagine
...house on the hill — made me uneasy. There was no sign on the face of nature of this amazing tale that was not so much told as suggested to me in desolate...patient expectation, of unapproachable silence. The Russian was explaining to me that it was only lately that Mr. Kurtz had come down to the river, bringing... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 360 pagine
...ruined house on the hill—made me uneasy. There was no sign on the face of nature of this amazing tale that was not so much told as suggested to me in desolate...ending in deep sighs. The woods were unmoved, like a mask—heavy, like the closed door of a prison—they looked with their air of hidden knowledge, of... | |
 | Ethan Allen Cross - 1928 - 524 pagine
...house on the hill — made me uneasy. There was no sign on the face of nature of this amazing tale that was not so much told as suggested to me in desolate...patient expectation, of unapproachable silence. The Russian was explaining to me that it was only lately that Mr. Kurtz had come down to the river, bringing... | |
 | 1900 - 874 pagine
...side and at the back of the house. The consciousness of there being people In that bush, so silent, eo quiet — as silent and quiet as the ruined house...the glass. The Russian was telling me that it was 222 223 only lately that Mr. Kurtz had come down to the river, bringing along with him that lake tribe.... | |
 | Richard Ambrosini - 1991 - 274 pagine
...Russian mariner's tale to the woods: "There was no sign on the face of nature of this amazing tale that was not so much told as suggested to me in desolate...interrupted phrases, in hints ending in deep sighs" (129). A word is a sound, and speech only a series of grimaces, at the moment of insight which comes... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1995 - 244 pagine
...ruined house on the hill - made me uneasy. There was no sign on the face of nature of this amazing tale that was not so much told as suggested to me in desolate...patient expectation, of unapproachable silence. The Russian was explaining to me that it was only lately that Mr Kurtz had come down to the river, bringing... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1995 - 228 pagine
...of other quests and journeys, Kurtz's own story is at last conveyed to Marlow in a non-narrated way, 'in desolate exclamations, completed by shrugs, in...interrupted phrases, in hints ending in deep sighs' (HD, p. 93). It becomes one among a series of possible plots, of alternative signifying systems, that... | |
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There was no sign on the face of nature of this amazing tale that was not so much told as suggested to me in desolate exclamations, completed by shrugs, in interrupted phrases, in hints ending in deep sighs. 
