VictoryVictory Joseph Conrad - Victory (also published as Victory: An Island Tale) is a psychological novel by Joseph Conrad first published in 1915. Through a business misadventure, the European Axel Heyst ends up living on an island in what is now Indonesia, with a Chinese assistant, Wang. Heyst visits a nearby island when a female band is playing at a hotel owned by Mr. Schomberg. Schomberg attempts to force himself sexually on one of the band members, Alma, later called Lena. She flees with Heyst back to his island and they become lovers. Schomberg seeks revenge by attempting to frame Heyst for the murder of a man who had died of natural causes. |
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... chapter of my life had been closed but it is difficult to discard completely the characteristics of half a lifetime, and it was in something of the Jack-ashore spirit that I dropped a five- franc piece into the sauceboat; whereupon the ...
... chapter of my life had been closed but it is difficult to discard completely the characteristics of half a lifetime, and it was in something of the Jack-ashore spirit that I dropped a five- franc piece into the sauceboat; whereupon the ...
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Joseph Conrad. CHAPTER ONE There is , as every schoolboy knows in this scientific age , a very close chemical relation between coal and diamonds . It is the reason , I believe , why some people allude to coal as " black diamonds . " Both ...
Joseph Conrad. CHAPTER ONE There is , as every schoolboy knows in this scientific age , a very close chemical relation between coal and diamonds . It is the reason , I believe , why some people allude to coal as " black diamonds . " Both ...
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... long moustaches , he resembled the portraits of Charles XII . , of adventurous memory . However , there was no reason to think that Heyst was in any way a fighting man . CHAPTER TWO It was about this time that Heyst became.
... long moustaches , he resembled the portraits of Charles XII . , of adventurous memory . However , there was no reason to think that Heyst was in any way a fighting man . CHAPTER TWO It was about this time that Heyst became.
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Joseph Conrad. CHAPTER TWO It was about this time that Heyst became associated with Morrison on terms about which people were in doubt . Some said he was a partner , others said he was a sort of paying guest , but the real truth of the ...
Joseph Conrad. CHAPTER TWO It was about this time that Heyst became associated with Morrison on terms about which people were in doubt . Some said he was a partner , others said he was a sort of paying guest , but the real truth of the ...
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