Victory - An Island TaleThis vintage book contains Joseph Conrad's 1915 psychological novel, "Victory: An Island Tale". It is the story of Axel Heyst who, after a series of unfortunate events, finds himself living on an Indonesian island with his Chinese assistant, Wang. After Heyst rescues a woman from an attempted sexual assault on a nearby island, the would-be perpetrator tries to frame him for a murder. Joseph Conrad (1857 - 1924) was a Polish author who is considered to be one of the greatest authors in the English language. He first gained popular success through the writing of this novel. Many vintage texts such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive, and it is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now, in an affordable, high-quality, modern edition. It comes complete with a specially commissioned biography of the author. |
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... there mysteriously, and coming up on deck again with a face on which nothing could be read, would as likely as not ... there was dead: He had died in the night. I don't remember ever being so moved by the desolate end of a complete ...
... there mysteriously, and coming up on deck again with a face on which nothing could be read, would as likely as not ... there was dead: He had died in the night. I don't remember ever being so moved by the desolate end of a complete ...
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... there was no gratitude but only surprise. I must have been idle indeed to take the trouble to remark on such slight ... there was not the slightest resemblance between them. All I am certain of in their personal relation to each other is ...
... there was no gratitude but only surprise. I must have been idle indeed to take the trouble to remark on such slight ... there was not the slightest resemblance between them. All I am certain of in their personal relation to each other is ...
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... There is, from that point of view, a deplorable lack of concentration in coal. Now, if a coalmine could be put into one's waistcoat pocket—but it can't! At the same time, there is a fascination in coal, the supreme commodity of the age ...
... There is, from that point of view, a deplorable lack of concentration in coal. Now, if a coalmine could be put into one's waistcoat pocket—but it can't! At the same time, there is a fascination in coal, the supreme commodity of the age ...
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... There was seldom enough wind to blow a feather along. On most evenings of the year Heyst could have sat outside with a naked candle to read one of the books left him by his late father. It was not a mean store. But he never did that ...
... There was seldom enough wind to blow a feather along. On most evenings of the year Heyst could have sat outside with a naked candle to read one of the books left him by his late father. It was not a mean store. But he never did that ...
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... There was no danger of anyone taking seriously his dream of tropical coal, so what was the use of hurting his feelings? Thus reasoned men in reputable business offices where he had his entree as a person who came out East with letters ...
... There was no danger of anyone taking seriously his dream of tropical coal, so what was the use of hurting his feelings? Thus reasoned men in reputable business offices where he had his entree as a person who came out East with letters ...
Contents
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