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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... appeared too great, too august, to stand at the head of a mere novel. There was also the possibility of falling under the suspicion of commercial astuteness deceiving the public into the belief that the book had something to do with war ...
... appeared too great, too august, to stand at the head of a mere novel. There was also the possibility of falling under the suspicion of commercial astuteness deceiving the public into the belief that the book had something to do with war ...
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... appearance in England any longer. It came out in the thirteenth month of the war, and my conscience was troubled by the awful incongruity of throwing this bit of imagined drama into the welter of reality, tragic enough in all conscience ...
... appearance in England any longer. It came out in the thirteenth month of the war, and my conscience was troubled by the awful incongruity of throwing this bit of imagined drama into the welter of reality, tragic enough in all conscience ...
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... appearance or actions could have roused his terrible ire. It became manifest to me less than two minutes after I had set eyes on him for the first time, and though immensely surprised of course I didn't stop to think it out I took the ...
... appearance or actions could have roused his terrible ire. It became manifest to me less than two minutes after I had set eyes on him for the first time, and though immensely surprised of course I didn't stop to think it out I took the ...
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... appearance in sight of his hermitage. "He's a genuine gentleman," Davidson said to us. "I was really sorry when he went ashore." We asked him where he had left Heyst. "Why, in Sourabaya—where else?" The Tesmans had their principal ...
... appearance in sight of his hermitage. "He's a genuine gentleman," Davidson said to us. "I was really sorry when he went ashore." We asked him where he had left Heyst. "Why, in Sourabaya—where else?" The Tesmans had their principal ...
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... manner : " You desire ? " The good Davidson , still sponging his wet neck , declared with simplicity that he had come to fetch away Heyst , as agreed . " Not here ! " A Chinaman appeared in response to the bell . Schomberg.
... manner : " You desire ? " The good Davidson , still sponging his wet neck , declared with simplicity that he had come to fetch away Heyst , as agreed . " Not here ! " A Chinaman appeared in response to the bell . Schomberg.
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