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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... 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 mien of ...
... 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 mien of ...
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... asked if it was a fact that Morri- son had not that amount in hand . Morrison hadn't . He had only a little English gold , a few sovereigns , on board . He had left all his spare cash with the Tesmans , in Samarang , to meet certain ...
... asked if it was a fact that Morri- son had not that amount in hand . Morrison hadn't . He had only a little English gold , a few sovereigns , on board . He had left all his spare cash with the Tesmans , in Samarang , to meet certain ...
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... asked him once with shallow scorn . " Drinks ! Oh , dear , no ! " The innkeeper was not mercenary . Teutonic tem- perament seldom is . But he put on a sinister expres- sion to tell us that Heyst had not paid perhaps three visits ...
... asked him once with shallow scorn . " Drinks ! Oh , dear , no ! " The innkeeper was not mercenary . Teutonic tem- perament seldom is . But he put on a sinister expres- sion to tell us that Heyst had not paid perhaps three visits ...
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... asked him . 666 ' Something of the sort , ' he says . hold . ' I am keeping " But all this is as dead as Julius Cæsar , ' I cried . ' In fact , you have nothing worth holding on to , Heyst . ' " Oh , I am done with facts , ' says he ...
... asked him . 666 ' Something of the sort , ' he says . hold . ' I am keeping " But all this is as dead as Julius Cæsar , ' I cried . ' In fact , you have nothing worth holding on to , Heyst . ' " Oh , I am done with facts , ' says he ...
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... asked with unconcealed astonishment . Heyst did mean that . " My poor father died in London . It has been all stored there ever since , " he explained . " For all these years ? " exclaimed Davidson , thinking how long we all had known ...
... asked with unconcealed astonishment . Heyst did mean that . " My poor father died in London . It has been all stored there ever since , " he explained . " For all these years ? " exclaimed Davidson , thinking how long we all had known ...
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