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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... island of St. Thomas in the West Indies (in the year '75) where we found him one hot afternoon extended on three chairs, all alone in the loud buzzing of flies to which his immobility and his cadaverous aspect gave a most gruesome ...
... island of St. Thomas in the West Indies (in the year '75) where we found him one hot afternoon extended on three chairs, all alone in the loud buzzing of flies to which his immobility and his cadaverous aspect gave a most gruesome ...
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... island . An island is but the top of a mountain . Axel Heyst , perched on it immovably , was surrounded , instead of the imponderable stormy and transparent ocean of air merging into infinity , by a tepid , shallow sea ; a passionless ...
... island . An island is but the top of a mountain . Axel Heyst , perched on it immovably , was surrounded , instead of the imponderable stormy and transparent ocean of air merging into infinity , by a tepid , shallow sea ; a passionless ...
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... Island " of the charts — was dazzling ; and in the flood of cold light Heyst could see his immediate surroundings , which had the aspect of an abandoned settlement invaded by the jungle : vague roofs above low vegetation , broken ...
... Island " of the charts — was dazzling ; and in the flood of cold light Heyst could see his immediate surroundings , which had the aspect of an abandoned settlement invaded by the jungle : vague roofs above low vegetation , broken ...
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... islands and exploit them locally . And , Lord knows , there were any amount of outcrops . It was Heyst who had located most of them in this part of the tropical belt during his rather aimless wanderings , and being a ready letter ...
... islands and exploit them locally . And , Lord knows , there were any amount of outcrops . It was Heyst who had located most of them in this part of the tropical belt during his rather aimless wanderings , and being a ready letter ...
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... islands!" He shot it out suddenly, a propos des bottes, as the French say, and while chalking his cue. And perhaps it was some sort of enchantment. There are more spells than your commonplace magicians ever dreamed of. Roughly speaking ...
... islands!" He shot it out suddenly, a propos des bottes, as the French say, and while chalking his cue. And perhaps it was some sort of enchantment. There are more spells than your commonplace magicians ever dreamed of. Roughly speaking ...
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