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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... Pedro , Heyst , the man of universal detachment , loses his mental self - possession , that fine attitude before the universally irremediable which wears the name of stoicism . It is all a matter of proportion . There should have been a ...
... Pedro , Heyst , the man of universal detachment , loses his mental self - possession , that fine attitude before the universally irremediable which wears the name of stoicism . It is all a matter of proportion . There should have been a ...
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... Pedro was much shorter and my observation of him was less complete but incomparably more anxious . It ended in a sudden in- spiration to get out of his way . It was in a hovel of sticks and mats by the side of a path . As I went in ...
... Pedro was much shorter and my observation of him was less complete but incomparably more anxious . It ended in a sudden in- spiration to get out of his way . It was in a hovel of sticks and mats by the side of a path . As I went in ...
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... Pedro never . The impression was less vivid . I got away from him too quickly . It seems to me but natural that those three buried in a corner of my memory should suddenly get out into the light of the world - so natural that I offer no ...
... Pedro never . The impression was less vivid . I got away from him too quickly . It seems to me but natural that those three buried in a corner of my memory should suddenly get out into the light of the world - so natural that I offer no ...
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... Pedro - I don't know that he ever had any other name . Pedro , alligator - hunter . Oh , yes - I'll pay his board with the half - caste . Can't help myself . He's so confoundedly devoted to me that if I were to give him the sack he ...
... Pedro - I don't know that he ever had any other name . Pedro , alligator - hunter . Oh , yes - I'll pay his board with the half - caste . Can't help myself . He's so confoundedly devoted to me that if I were to give him the sack he ...
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... Pedro here every evening . He isn't the con- ventional waiter's cut , but he will do to run to and fro with the tray , while you sit here from nine to eleven serving out drinks and gathering the money . " " There will be three of them ...
... Pedro here every evening . He isn't the con- ventional waiter's cut , but he will do to run to and fro with the tray , while you sit here from nine to eleven serving out drinks and gathering the money . " " There will be three of them ...
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