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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... 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 deceased whose white beard and hooked nose were the ...
... 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 deceased whose white beard and hooked nose were the ...
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... don't you?" Morrison had pulled himself together, but one felt the snapping strain on his recovered self-possession. Heyst was beginning to say that he "could very well see all the bearings of this unfortunate—" when Morrison ...
... don't you?" Morrison had pulled himself together, but one felt the snapping strain on his recovered self-possession. Heyst was beginning to say that he "could very well see all the bearings of this unfortunate—" when Morrison ...
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... don't happen—unheard of things. He had no real inkling of what it meant, till Heyst said definitely: "I can lend you the amount." "You have the money?" whispered Morrison. "Do you mean here, in your pocket?" "Yes, on me. Glad to be of ...
... don't happen—unheard of things. He had no real inkling of what it meant, till Heyst said definitely: "I can lend you the amount." "You have the money?" whispered Morrison. "Do you mean here, in your pocket?" "Yes, on me. Glad to be of ...
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... don't know how it is that I've never been able to save. It's some sort of curse. There's always a bill or two to meet." He plunged his hand into his pocket for the famous notebook so well known in the islands, the fetish of his hopes ...
... don't know how it is that I've never been able to save. It's some sort of curse. There's always a bill or two to meet." He plunged his hand into his pocket for the famous notebook so well known in the islands, the fetish of his hopes ...
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... don't know. Out there he was by profession a hotel- keeper, first in Bangkok, then somewhere else, and ultimately in Sourabaya. He dragged after him up and down that section of the tropical belt a silent, frightened, little woman with ...
... don't know. Out there he was by profession a hotel- keeper, first in Bangkok, then somewhere else, and ultimately in Sourabaya. He dragged after him up and down that section of the tropical belt a silent, frightened, little woman with ...
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