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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... raising himself from time to time on his elbow would talk about himself and go on talking, not exactly to me or even at me (he would not even look up but kept his eyes fixed on the deck) but more as if communing in a low voice with his ...
... raising himself from time to time on his elbow would talk about himself and go on talking, not exactly to me or even at me (he would not even look up but kept his eyes fixed on the deck) but more as if communing in a low voice with his ...
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... raised on two posts and presenting to Heyst , when the moon got over that side , the white letters " T. B. C. Co. " in a row at least two feet high . These were the initials of the Tropical Belt Coal Company , his employers - his late ...
... raised on two posts and presenting to Heyst , when the moon got over that side , the white letters " T. B. C. Co. " in a row at least two feet high . These were the initials of the Tropical Belt Coal Company , his employers - his late ...
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... raise a millrei on—let alone a shilling. The Portuguese officials begged him not to distress himself. They gave him a week's grace, and then proposed to sell the brig at auction. This meant ruin for Morrison; and when Heyst hailed him ...
... raise a millrei on—let alone a shilling. The Portuguese officials begged him not to distress himself. They gave him a week's grace, and then proposed to sell the brig at auction. This meant ruin for Morrison; and when Heyst hailed him ...
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... raising his diminished head, and sticking the glass in his eye to look affectionately at Heyst, a bottle being uncorked, and so on. It was agreed that nothing should be said to anyone of this transaction. Morrison, you understand, was ...
... raising his diminished head, and sticking the glass in his eye to look affectionately at Heyst, a bottle being uncorked, and so on. It was agreed that nothing should be said to anyone of this transaction. Morrison, you understand, was ...
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... raised his eyebrows without looking at him . It might have meant anything , but Davidson dismissed the hospital idea with confidence . However , he had to get hold of Heyst between this and midnight : " He has been staying here ? " he ...
... raised his eyebrows without looking at him . It might have meant anything , but Davidson dismissed the hospital idea with confidence . However , he had to get hold of Heyst between this and midnight : " He has been staying here ? " he ...
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