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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... tone in which there was no gratitude but only surprise. I must have been idle indeed to take the trouble to remark on such slight evidence that the voice was very charming and when the performers resumed their seats I shifted my ...
... tone in which there was no gratitude but only surprise. I must have been idle indeed to take the trouble to remark on such slight evidence that the voice was very charming and when the performers resumed their seats I shifted my ...
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... tone, fervour, rapture, what you will, or perhaps by the incongruity of it that he had related the experience to more than one person. "Queer chap, that Swede," was his only comment; but this is the origin of the name "Enchanted Heyst ...
... tone, fervour, rapture, what you will, or perhaps by the incongruity of it that he had related the experience to more than one person. "Queer chap, that Swede," was his only comment; but this is the origin of the name "Enchanted Heyst ...
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... grace, and then proposed to sell the brig at auction. This meant ruin for Morrison; and when Heyst hailed him across the street in his usual courtly tone, the week was nearly out. Heyst crossed over, and said with a slight bow, and.
... grace, and then proposed to sell the brig at auction. This meant ruin for Morrison; and when Heyst hailed him across the street in his usual courtly tone, the week was nearly out. Heyst crossed over, and said with a slight bow, and.
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... tone, with a man-of-the-world air. "It's a villainous plot. Unluckily, one is helpless. That scoundrel Cousinho—Andreas, you know—has been coveting the brig for years. Naturally, I would never sell. She is not only my livelihood; she's ...
... tone, with a man-of-the-world air. "It's a villainous plot. Unluckily, one is helpless. That scoundrel Cousinho—Andreas, you know—has been coveting the brig for years. Naturally, I would never sell. She is not only my livelihood; she's ...
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... tone. "I think I will sit down for a moment and have a drink, after all." This was not what Schomberg had expected to hear. He called brutally: "Boy!" The Chinaman approached, and after referring him to the white man by a nod the hotel ...
... tone. "I think I will sit down for a moment and have a drink, after all." This was not what Schomberg had expected to hear. He called brutally: "Boy!" The Chinaman approached, and after referring him to the white man by a nod the hotel ...
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