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 xiii
... dark and unspeakable cuddy of that schooner , an old Spanish gentleman , owner of much luggage and , as Ricardo assured me , very ill indeed . Ricardo seemed to be either a servant or the confidant of that aged and distinguished ...
... dark and unspeakable cuddy of that schooner , an old Spanish gentleman , owner of much luggage and , as Ricardo assured me , very ill indeed . Ricardo seemed to be either a servant or the confidant of that aged and distinguished ...
Page xiv
... dark depths of a horrible stuffy bunk . As it fell calm in the 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 ...
... dark depths of a horrible stuffy bunk . As it fell calm in the 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 ...
Page xvi
... I naturally ( being idle ) continued to look at the girl through all the second part of the programme . The shape of her dark head inclined over the violir was fascinating , and , while resting between the pieces XVi AUTHOR'S NOTE.
... I naturally ( being idle ) continued to look at the girl through all the second part of the programme . The shape of her dark head inclined over the violir was fascinating , and , while resting between the pieces XVi AUTHOR'S NOTE.
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... dark . Axel Heyst was also a smoker ; and when he lounged out on his verandah with his cheroot , the last thing before going to bed , he made in the night the same sort of glow and of the same size as that other one so many miles away ...
... dark . Axel Heyst was also a smoker ; and when he lounged out on his verandah with his cheroot , the last thing before going to bed , he made in the night the same sort of glow and of the same size as that other one so many miles away ...
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... dark and wet there ; that it was like living with your head and shoulders in a moist gunny - bag . That was only his exaggerated style of talking . Morrison was " one of us . ' He was owner and master of the Capricorn , trading brig ...
... dark and wet there ; that it was like living with your head and shoulders in a moist gunny - bag . That was only his exaggerated style of talking . Morrison was " one of us . ' He was owner and master of the Capricorn , trading brig ...
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