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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... Morrison , who , in his way , was also an “ enchanted " man . When you spoke to Morrison of going home-- he was from Dorsetshire he shuddered . He said it was dark and wet there ; that it was like living with your head and shoulders in ...
... Morrison , who , in his way , was also an “ enchanted " man . When you spoke to Morrison of going home-- he was from Dorsetshire he shuddered . He said it was dark and wet there ; that it was like living with your head and shoulders in ...
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... Morrison thought so , but the villagers had no doubt whatever about it . Whenever a coast village sighted the brig it would begin to beat all its gongs and hoist all its streamers , and all its girls would put flowers in their hair and ...
... Morrison thought so , but the villagers had no doubt whatever about it . Whenever a coast village sighted the brig it would begin to beat all its gongs and hoist all its streamers , and all its girls would put flowers in their hair and ...
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... Morrison was walking along the street , his eyeglass tossed over his shoulder , his head down , with the hopeless aspect of those hard- ened tramps one sees on our roads trudging from work house to workhouse . Being hailed across the ...
... Morrison was walking along the street , his eyeglass tossed over his shoulder , his head down , with the hopeless aspect of those hard- ened tramps one sees on our roads trudging from work house to workhouse . Being hailed across the ...
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... Morrison's tongue was loosened at last . " Fever ! " he cried . " Give me fever . Give me plague . They are diseases . One gets over them . But I am being murdered . I am being murdered by the Portuguese . The gang here downed me at ...
... Morrison's tongue was loosened at last . " Fever ! " he cried . " Give me fever . Give me plague . They are diseases . One gets over them . But I am being murdered . I am being murdered by the Portuguese . The gang here downed me at ...
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... Morrison ? " asked Heyst with a distinct note of respect . " Surely I am not an infidel . " Morrison was swiftly reproachful in his answer , and there came a pause , Morrison perhaps interrogating his conscience , and Heyst preserving a ...
... Morrison ? " asked Heyst with a distinct note of respect . " Surely I am not an infidel . " Morrison was swiftly reproachful in his answer , and there came a pause , Morrison perhaps interrogating his conscience , and Heyst preserving a ...
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