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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... there was dead: He had died in the night. I don't remember ever being so moved by the desolate end of a complete stranger. I looked down the skylight, and there was the devoted Martin busy cording cowhide trunks belonging to the ...
... there was dead: He had died in the night. I don't remember ever being so moved by the desolate end of a complete stranger. I looked down the skylight, and there was the devoted Martin busy cording cowhide trunks belonging to the ...
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... there was not the slightest resemblance between them. All I am certain of in their personal relation to each other is that cruel pinch on the upper part of the arm. That I am sure I have seen! There could be no mistake. I was in too ...
... there was not the slightest resemblance between them. All I am certain of in their personal relation to each other is that cruel pinch on the upper part of the arm. That I am sure I have seen! There could be no mistake. I was in too ...
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... There is , from that point of view , a deplorable lack of concentration in coal . Now , if a coal- mine 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 ...
... There is , from that point of view , a deplorable lack of concentration in coal . Now , if a coal- mine 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 ...
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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 a coal - mine there , with an outcrop in the hillside less than five hundred yards from the rickety wharf and the imposing blackboard . The company's object had been to get hold of all the outcrops on tropical islands and ...
... There was a coal - mine there , with an outcrop in the hillside less than five hundred yards from the rickety wharf and the imposing blackboard . The company's object had been to get hold of all the outcrops on tropical islands and ...
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