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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... coming up on deck again with a face on which nothing could be read, would as likely as not resume for my edification the exposition of his moral attitude towards life illustrated by striking particular instances of the most atrocious ...
... coming up on deck again with a face on which nothing could be read, would as likely as not resume for my edification the exposition of his moral attitude towards life illustrated by striking particular instances of the most atrocious ...
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... coming by from the westward, saw him with his own eyes. Something white on the wharf, so he steamed in and went ashore in a small boat. Heyst, right enough. Put a book into his pocket, always very polite. Been strolling on the wharf and ...
... coming by from the westward, saw him with his own eyes. Something white on the wharf, so he steamed in and went ashore in a small boat. Heyst, right enough. Put a book into his pocket, always very polite. Been strolling on the wharf and ...
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... coming on shore later in the day, brought tales of a strange invasion, and wanted to know who were the two offensive lunatics in a steamlaunch, apparently after a man and a girl, and telling a story of which one could make neither head ...
... coming on shore later in the day, brought tales of a strange invasion, and wanted to know who were the two offensive lunatics in a steamlaunch, apparently after a man and a girl, and telling a story of which one could make neither head ...
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... coming down in pairs from the platform into the body of Schomberg's “concerthall.” They dispersed themselves all over the place. The male creature with the hooked nose and purpleblack beard disappeared somewhere. This was the interval ...
... coming down in pairs from the platform into the body of Schomberg's “concerthall.” They dispersed themselves all over the place. The male creature with the hooked nose and purpleblack beard disappeared somewhere. This was the interval ...
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... coming down the three steps from the platform to the floor of the hall. There she paused, stumbled one pace forward, and stood still again, while the other—the escort, the dragoon, the coarse big woman of the piano —passed her roughly ...
... coming down the three steps from the platform to the floor of the hall. There she paused, stumbled one pace forward, and stood still again, while the other—the escort, the dragoon, the coarse big woman of the piano —passed her roughly ...
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CHAPTER EIGHT | |
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