VictoryAxel Heyst, a dreamer and a restless drifter, believes he can avoid suffering by cutting himself off from others. Then he becomes involved in the operation of a coal company on a remote island in the Malay Archipelago, and when it fails he turns his back on humanity once more. But his life alters when he rescues a young English girl, Lena, from Zangiacomo's Ladies' Orchestra and the evil innkeeper Schomberg, taking her to his island retreat. The affair between Heyst and Lena begins with her release, but the relationship shifts as Lena struggles to save Heyst from the detachment and isolation that have inhibited and influenced his life. Marked by a violent and tragic conclusion, Victory is both a tale of rescue and adventure and a perceptive study of a complex relationship and of the power of love. |
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... Heyst . I have always liked him . The flesh and blood individual who stands behind the in- finitely more familiar ... Heyst of course ; he is only the physical and moral foun- dation of my Heyst laid on the ground of a short ac ...
... Heyst . I have always liked him . The flesh and blood individual who stands behind the in- finitely more familiar ... Heyst of course ; he is only the physical and moral foun- dation of my Heyst laid on the ground of a short ac ...
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... Heyst - Axel Heyst - from going away . The Tropical Belt Coal Company went into liquida- tion . The world of finance is a mysterious world in which , incredible as the fact may appear , evaporation precedes liquidation . First the ...
... Heyst - Axel Heyst - from going away . The Tropical Belt Coal Company went into liquida- tion . The world of finance is a mysterious world in which , incredible as the fact may appear , evaporation precedes liquidation . First the ...
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... Heyst , perched on it immovably , was surrounded , instead of the impon- derable stormy and transparent ocean of air merging into infinity , by a tepid , shallow sea ; a passionless off- shoot of the great waters which embrace the ...
... Heyst , perched on it immovably , was surrounded , instead of the impon- derable stormy and transparent ocean of air merging into infinity , by a tepid , shallow sea ; a passionless off- shoot of the great waters which embrace the ...
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... Heyst could see his immediate surroundings , which had the aspect of an abandoned settlement invaded by the jungle : vague roofs above low vegetation , broken shadows of bamboo fences in the sheen of long grass , something like an ...
... Heyst could see his immediate surroundings , which had the aspect of an abandoned settlement invaded by the jungle : vague roofs above low vegetation , broken shadows of bamboo fences in the sheen of long grass , something like an ...
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... 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 once . Perhaps these were his attempts to break out . If so , they were failures . The ...
... 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 once . Perhaps these were his attempts to break out . If so , they were failures . The ...
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