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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... hand that come without reflection and lead the man to excellence in life, in art, in crime, in virtue, and, for the matter of that, even in love. Thinking is the great enemy of perfection. The habit of profound reflection, I am ...
... hand that come without reflection and lead the man to excellence in life, in art, in crime, in virtue, and, for the matter of that, even in love. Thinking is the great enemy of perfection. The habit of profound reflection, I am ...
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... hand which accompanied the phrase suggested tropical distances being impelled onward . In connection with the finished courtesy of his manner , it was persuasive , or at any rate silencing - for a time , at least . Nobody cared to argue ...
... hand which accompanied the phrase suggested tropical distances being impelled onward . In connection with the finished courtesy of his manner , it was persuasive , or at any rate silencing - for a time , at least . Nobody cared to argue ...
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... hand a long glass emptied of its contents - paid for by Heyst - he said , with that deliberate sagacity which no mere water - drinker ever attained : " Heyst's a puffect g'n'lman . Puffect ! But he's a ut - uto - utopist . ' Heyst had ...
... hand a long glass emptied of its contents - paid for by Heyst - he said , with that deliberate sagacity which no mere water - drinker ever attained : " Heyst's a puffect g'n'lman . Puffect ! But he's a ut - uto - utopist . ' Heyst had ...
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... hand. With his system of trading it would have been strange if he had; and all these debts entered in the pocketbook weren't good enough to raise a millrei on—let alone a shilling. The Portuguese officials begged him not to distress ...
... hand. With his system of trading it would have been strange if he had; and all these debts entered in the pocketbook weren't good enough to raise a millrei on—let alone a shilling. The Portuguese officials begged him not to distress ...
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... 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 would fall due while he was away on his cruise. Anyhow, that ...
... 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 would fall due while he was away on his cruise. Anyhow, that ...
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