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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... fact that he did not speak the language fluently until his twenties. Conrad's most influential work remains Heart of Darkness (1899), to which many have been introduced by Francis Ford Coppola's film, Apocalypse Now (1979). However ...
... fact that he did not speak the language fluently until his twenties. Conrad's most influential work remains Heart of Darkness (1899), to which many have been introduced by Francis Ford Coppola's film, Apocalypse Now (1979). However ...
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... fact that, far from being the incarnation of recent animosities, he is the creature of my old deepseated, and, as it were, impartial conviction. J. C. AUTHOR'S NOTE On approaching the task of writing this Note NOTE TO THE FIRST EDITION.
... fact that, far from being the incarnation of recent animosities, he is the creature of my old deepseated, and, as it were, impartial conviction. J. C. AUTHOR'S NOTE On approaching the task of writing this Note NOTE TO THE FIRST EDITION.
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... fact of the book having been published in the United States early in the year made it difficult to delay its appearance in England any longer. It came out in the thirteenth month of the war, and my conscience was troubled by the awful ...
... fact of the book having been published in the United States early in the year made it difficult to delay its appearance in England any longer. It came out in the thirteenth month of the war, and my conscience was troubled by the awful ...
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... fact we were in sight of the low pestilential mangrovelined coast of our destination. The excellent Father Superior mentioned to me with an air of immense commiseration: “The poor man has left a young daughter.” Who was to look after ...
... fact we were in sight of the low pestilential mangrovelined coast of our destination. The excellent Father Superior mentioned to me with an air of immense commiseration: “The poor man has left a young daughter.” Who was to look after ...
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... fact may appear, evaporation precedes liquidation. First the capital evaporates, and then the company goes into liquidation. These are very unnatural physics, but they account for the persistent inertia of Heyst, at which we “out there ...
... fact may appear, evaporation precedes liquidation. First the capital evaporates, and then the company goes into liquidation. These are very unnatural physics, but they account for the persistent inertia of Heyst, at which we “out there ...
Contents
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CHAPTER ELEVEN | |
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