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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... speak of Lena, because if I were to leave her out it would look like a slight; and nothing would be further from my thoughts than putting a slight on Lena. If of all the personages involved in the "mystery of Samburan" I have lived ...
... speak of Lena, because if I were to leave her out it would look like a slight; and nothing would be further from my thoughts than putting a slight on Lena. If of all the personages involved in the "mystery of Samburan" I have lived ...
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... the inanimate , brooding sunshine of the tropics . His nearest neighbour - I am speaking now of things showing some sort of animation — was an indolent volcano which smoked faintly all day with its head just above the northern horizon , ...
... the inanimate , brooding sunshine of the tropics . His nearest neighbour - I am speaking now of things showing some sort of animation — was an indolent volcano which smoked faintly all day with its head just above the northern horizon , ...
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... speaking, a circle with a radius of eight hundred miles drawn round a point in North Borneo was in Heyst's case a magic circle. It just touched Manila, and he had been seen there. It just touched Saigon, and he was likewise seen there ...
... speaking, a circle with a radius of eight hundred miles drawn round a point in North Borneo was in Heyst's case a magic circle. It just touched Manila, and he had been seen there. It just touched Saigon, and he was likewise seen there ...
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... speak of Heyst as the Enemy. He was very concrete, very visible now. He was rushing all over the Archipelago, jumping in and out of local mail- packets as if they had been tram-cars, here, there, and everywhere—organizing with all his ...
... speak of Heyst as the Enemy. He was very concrete, very visible now. He was rushing all over the Archipelago, jumping in and out of local mail- packets as if they had been tram-cars, here, there, and everywhere—organizing with all his ...
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... speak familiarly to. There's something in him. One doesn't care to. "'But what's the object? Are you thinking of keeping possession of the mine?' I asked him. "'Something of the sort,' he says. 'I am keeping hold.' "'But all this is as ...
... speak familiarly to. There's something in him. One doesn't care to. "'But what's the object? Are you thinking of keeping possession of the mine?' I asked him. "'Something of the sort,' he says. 'I am keeping hold.' "'But all this is as ...
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