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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... voice with his familiar devil. Now and then he would give me a glance and make the hairs of his stiff little moustache stir quaintly. His eyes were green and every cat I see to this day reminds me of the exact contour of his face. What ...
... voice with his familiar devil. Now and then he would give me a glance and make the hairs of his stiff little moustache stir quaintly. His eyes were green and every cat I see to this day reminds me of the exact contour of his face. What ...
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... voice was very charming and when the performers resumed their seats I shifted my position slightly in order not to ... voices, the rattling of dominoes through a blue atmosphere of tobacco smoke. I believe that those people left the town ...
... voice was very charming and when the performers resumed their seats I shifted my position slightly in order not to ... voices, the rattling of dominoes through a blue atmosphere of tobacco smoke. I believe that those people left the town ...
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... voice. "There's nothing worth knowing but facts. Hard facts! Facts alone, Mr. Tesman." I don't know if old Tesman agreed with him or not, but he must have spoken about it, because, for a time, our man got the name of "Hard Facts." He ...
... voice. "There's nothing worth knowing but facts. Hard facts! Facts alone, Mr. Tesman." I don't know if old Tesman agreed with him or not, but he must have spoken about it, because, for a time, our man got the name of "Hard Facts." He ...
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... voice , which was his obvious characteristic , he had said with delicate playfulness : " Come along and quench your thirst with us , Mr. McNab ! " Perhaps that was it . A man who could propose , even playfully , to quench old McNab's ...
... voice , which was his obvious characteristic , he had said with delicate playfulness : " Come along and quench your thirst with us , Mr. McNab ! " Perhaps that was it . A man who could propose , even playfully , to quench old McNab's ...
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... voice nearly gone, the brim of his round pith hat shading an unshaven, livid face. His white clothes, which he had not taken off for three days, were dingy. He had already gone to the bad, past redemption. The sight was shocking to ...
... voice nearly gone, the brim of his round pith hat shading an unshaven, livid face. His white clothes, which he had not taken off for three days, were dingy. He had already gone to the bad, past redemption. The sight was shocking to ...
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