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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Page xi
... course ; he is only the physical and moral foun- dation of my Heyst laid on the ground of a short ac quaintance . That it was short was certainly not my ult , for he had charmed me by the mere amenity of his attachment which , in this ...
... course ; he is only the physical and moral foun- dation of my Heyst laid on the ground of a short ac quaintance . That it was short was certainly not my ult , for he had charmed me by the mere amenity of his attachment which , in this ...
Page xiv
... course of the afternoon and continued calm during all that night and the terrible , flaming day , the late " Rich man " had to be thrown overboard at sunset , though as a matter of fact we wer ? in sight of the low , pestilential ...
... course of the afternoon and continued calm during all that night and the terrible , flaming day , the late " Rich man " had to be thrown overboard at sunset , though as a matter of fact we wer ? in sight of the low , pestilential ...
Page xv
... course I didn't stop to think it out . I took the nearest short cut - through the wall . This bestial apparition and a certain enormous buck nigger encountered in Haiti only a couple of months afterwards , have fixed my conception of ...
... course I didn't stop to think it out . I took the nearest short cut - through the wall . This bestial apparition and a certain enormous buck nigger encountered in Haiti only a couple of months afterwards , have fixed my conception of ...
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... course of two years , the company went into liquidation - forced , I believe , not voluntary . There was nothing forcible in the process , however . It was slow ; and while the liquidation - in London and Amster- dam - pursued its ...
... course of two years , the company went into liquidation - forced , I believe , not voluntary . There was nothing forcible in the process , however . It was slow ; and while the liquidation - in London and Amster- dam - pursued its ...
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... course , will be a farce . There's no one here to bid . He will get the brig for a song - no , not even that — a line of a song . You have been some years now in the islands , Heyst . You know us all ; you have seen how we live . Now ...
... course , will be a farce . There's no one here to bid . He will get the brig for a song - no , not even that — a line of a song . You have been some years now in the islands , Heyst . You know us all ; you have seen how we live . Now ...
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