VictoryOn a rare impulse Swedish Baron and rootless drifter Axel Heyst, rescues a sea captain from his debts. This uncharacteristic act of kindness has unimagined and tragic repercussions for many people, with the reader being left to decide the nature and attainability of ultimate victory. |
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Page 102
... talk mighty big , ' burst out the hotel - keeper . ' You talk of ranging all over the world , and doing great things , and taking for- tune by the scruff of the neck , but here you stick at this miserable business ! ' ' It isn't much of ...
... talk mighty big , ' burst out the hotel - keeper . ' You talk of ranging all over the world , and doing great things , and taking for- tune by the scruff of the neck , but here you stick at this miserable business ! ' ' It isn't much of ...
Page 216
... talks in his harsh voice frightens me . I don't like all these foreign people . ' ' It was just before he went away ... talk with – but I don't believe you have seen them . One of them is a fantastically thin , long person , apparently ...
... talks in his harsh voice frightens me . I don't like all these foreign people . ' ' It was just before he went away ... talk with – but I don't believe you have seen them . One of them is a fantastically thin , long person , apparently ...
Page 239
... talking non- sense . It could not make any difference to his security where you were , because the evil men , as he calls ... talk . I have managed to refine everything away . I've said to the Earth that bore me : “ I am I and you are a ...
... talking non- sense . It could not make any difference to his security where you were , because the evil men , as he calls ... talk . I have managed to refine everything away . I've said to the Earth that bore me : “ I am I and you are a ...
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