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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... feelings aroused by the critical notices the book obtained when first published almost exactly a year after the beginning of the war. The writing of it was finished in 1914 long before the murder of an Austrian Archduke sounded the ...
... feelings aroused by the critical notices the book obtained when first published almost exactly a year after the beginning of the war. The writing of it was finished in 1914 long before the murder of an Austrian Archduke sounded the ...
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... feelings ? Thus reasoned men in reputable business offices where he had his entree as a person who came out East with letters of introduction - and modest letters of credit , too - some years before these coal - outcrops began to crop ...
... feelings ? Thus reasoned men in reputable business offices where he had his entree as a person who came out East with letters of introduction - and modest letters of credit , too - some years before these coal - outcrops began to crop ...
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... feelings, he made his great renunciation. He cast off the abiding illusion of his existence. "No. No. They are not good ... feeling was ever scorned by Heyst. But he was incapable of outward cordiality of manner, and he felt acutely his ...
... feelings, he made his great renunciation. He cast off the abiding illusion of his existence. "No. No. They are not good ... feeling was ever scorned by Heyst. But he was incapable of outward cordiality of manner, and he felt acutely his ...
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... creditable) tangle of strong feelings Morrison's gratitude insisted on Heyst's partnership in the great discovery. Ultimately we heard that Morrison had gone home through the Suez Canal in order to push the magnificent coal idea.
... creditable) tangle of strong feelings Morrison's gratitude insisted on Heyst's partnership in the great discovery. Ultimately we heard that Morrison had gone home through the Suez Canal in order to push the magnificent coal idea.
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... feeling, I think, though of course he had no more polish than the rest of us. We were naturally a hail-fellow-well-met crowd, with standards of our own—no worse, I daresay, than other people's; but polish was not one of them. Davidson's ...
... feeling, I think, though of course he had no more polish than the rest of us. We were naturally a hail-fellow-well-met crowd, with standards of our own—no worse, I daresay, than other people's; but polish was not one of them. Davidson's ...
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