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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... close chemical relation between coal and diamonds . It is the reason , I believe , why some people allude to coal as " black diamonds . " Both these com- modities represent wealth ; but coal is a much less port- able form of property ...
... close chemical relation between coal and diamonds . It is the reason , I believe , why some people allude to coal as " black diamonds . " Both these com- modities represent wealth ; but coal is a much less port- able form of property ...
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... close over the last vestiges of the liquidated Tropical Belt Coal Com- pany - A . Heyst , manager in the East . Davidson , a good , simple fellow in his way , was strangely affected . It is to be noted that he knew very little of Heyst ...
... close over the last vestiges of the liquidated Tropical Belt Coal Com- pany - A . Heyst , manager in the East . Davidson , a good , simple fellow in his way , was strangely affected . It is to be noted that he knew very little of Heyst ...
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... undertone : " It's unreasonable to get so angry as that . Even if he had run off with your cash - box " ' The big hotel - keeper bent down and put his infuriated face close to Davidson's . " My cash - box ! My - he - 46 VICTORY.
... undertone : " It's unreasonable to get so angry as that . Even if he had run off with your cash - box " ' The big hotel - keeper bent down and put his infuriated face close to Davidson's . " My cash - box ! My - he - 46 VICTORY.
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... bamboo pole , and was waving it at the end of the old wharf . " Davidson didn't like to take his steamer alongside- for fear of being indiscreet , I suppose ; but he steered close inshore , stopped his engines , and lowered a 52.
... bamboo pole , and was waving it at the end of the old wharf . " Davidson didn't like to take his steamer alongside- for fear of being indiscreet , I suppose ; but he steered close inshore , stopped his engines , and lowered a 52.
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Joseph Conrad. close inshore , stopped his engines , and lowered a boat . He went himself in that boat , which was manned , of course , by his Malay seamen . Heyst , when he saw the boat pulling towards him , dropped his signalling ...
Joseph Conrad. close inshore , stopped his engines , and lowered a boat . He went himself in that boat , which was manned , of course , by his Malay seamen . Heyst , when he saw the boat pulling towards him , dropped his signalling ...
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