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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... asked Heyst with a distinct note of respect. "Surely I am not an infidel." Morrison was swiftly reproachful in his answer, and there came a pause, Morrison perhaps interrogating his conscience, and Heyst preserving a mien of unperturbed ...
... asked Heyst with a distinct note of respect. "Surely I am not an infidel." Morrison was swiftly reproachful in his answer, and there came a pause, Morrison perhaps interrogating his conscience, and Heyst preserving a mien of unperturbed ...
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... asked if it was a fact that Morrison had not that amount in hand. Morrison hadn't. He had only a little English gold, a few sovereigns, on board. He had left all his spare cash with the Tesmans, in Samarang, to meet certain bills which ...
... asked if it was a fact that Morrison had not that amount in hand. Morrison hadn't. He had only a little English gold, a few sovereigns, on board. He had left all his spare cash with the Tesmans, in Samarang, to meet certain bills which ...
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... asked him once with shallow scorn. "Drinks! Oh, dear no!" The innkeeper was not mercenary. Teutonic temperament seldom is. But he put on a sinister expression to tell us that Heyst had not paid perhaps three visits altogether to his ...
... asked him once with shallow scorn. "Drinks! Oh, dear no!" The innkeeper was not mercenary. Teutonic temperament seldom is. But he put on a sinister expression to tell us that Heyst had not paid perhaps three visits altogether to his ...
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... asked him. "'Something of the sort,' he says. 'I am keeping hold.' "'But all this is as dead as Julius Caesar,' I cried. 'In fact, you have nothing worth holding on to, Heyst.' "'Oh, I am done with facts,' says he, putting his hand to ...
... asked him. "'Something of the sort,' he says. 'I am keeping hold.' "'But all this is as dead as Julius Caesar,' I cried. 'In fact, you have nothing worth holding on to, Heyst.' "'Oh, I am done with facts,' says he, putting his hand to ...
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... asked with unconcealed astonishment. Heyst did mean that. "My poor father died in London. It has been all stored there ever since," he explained. "For all these years?" exclaimed Davidson, thinking how long we all had known Heyst ...
... asked with unconcealed astonishment. Heyst did mean that. "My poor father died in London. It has been all stored there ever since," he explained. "For all these years?" exclaimed Davidson, thinking how long we all had known Heyst ...
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