Word: heyst
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...masterpieces of his work. The style is a little simpler, a little less gorgeous, than in some of his novels. But it is no less masterly, and the men and women described are so wholly alive that they haunt the mind. Peyrol himself deserves a place beside Lingard and Heyst and the other great wanderers, and throughout the pages of The Rover, Mr. Conrad gives us anew that impression of space and completion that is stamped upon all his best work-the impression that he has not merely written a novel, but created a world...
...deserves a place with Lingard and Heyst...