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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... hear that one morning I was told without any particular emotion by the padrone of the schooner that the "rich man" down there was dead: He had died in the night. I don't remember ever being so moved by the desolate end of a complete ...
... hear that one morning I was told without any particular emotion by the padrone of the schooner that the "rich man" down there was dead: He had died in the night. I don't remember ever being so moved by the desolate end of a complete ...
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... hear the last of it. We must keep it dark." From quite other motives, among which his native delicacy was the principal, Heyst was even more anxious to bind himself to silence. A gentleman would naturally shrink from the part of ...
... hear the last of it. We must keep it dark." From quite other motives, among which his native delicacy was the principal, Heyst was even more anxious to bind himself to silence. A gentleman would naturally shrink from the part of ...
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... hear of this death till months afterwards—from Schomberg, who disliked Heyst gratuitously and made up a piece of sinister whispered gossip: "That's what comes of having anything to do with that fellow. He squeezes you dry like a lemon ...
... hear of this death till months afterwards—from Schomberg, who disliked Heyst gratuitously and made up a piece of sinister whispered gossip: "That's what comes of having anything to do with that fellow. He squeezes you dry like a lemon ...
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... hear of it he seized him heartily by the hand, gave one of his courtly bows, and declared that he was touched by his friendly proceedings. "I am not alluding to this trifling amount which you decline to take," he went on, giving a shake ...
... hear of it he seized him heartily by the hand, gave one of his courtly bows, and declared that he was touched by his friendly proceedings. "I am not alluding to this trifling amount which you decline to take," he went on, giving a shake ...
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... hear. He called brutally: "Boy!" The Chinaman approached, and after referring him to the white man by a nod the hotel-keeper departed, muttering to himself. Davidson heard him gnash his teeth as he went. Davidson sat alone with the ...
... hear. He called brutally: "Boy!" The Chinaman approached, and after referring him to the white man by a nod the hotel-keeper departed, muttering to himself. Davidson heard him gnash his teeth as he went. Davidson sat alone with the ...
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