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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... don't intend to make any damaging admissions . • 99 It so happened that the very same year Ricardo - the physical Ricardo - was a fellow passenger of mine on board an extremely small and extremely dirty little schooner , during a four ...
... don't intend to make any damaging admissions . • 99 It so happened that the very same year Ricardo - the physical Ricardo - was a fellow passenger of mine on board an extremely small and extremely dirty little schooner , during a four ...
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... don't remember ever being so moved by the desolate end of a complete stranger . I looked down the skylight , and there was the devoted Martin busy cording cowhide trunks belonging to the deceased whose white beard and hooked nose were ...
... don't remember ever being so moved by the desolate end of a complete stranger . I looked down the skylight , and there was the devoted Martin busy cording cowhide trunks belonging to the deceased whose white beard and hooked nose were ...
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... don't you ? " Morrison had pulled himself together , but one felt the snapping strain on his recovered self - possession . Heyst was beginning to say that he " could very well see all the bearings of this unfortunate- " when Morri- son ...
... don't you ? " Morrison had pulled himself together , but one felt the snapping strain on his recovered self - possession . Heyst was beginning to say that he " could very well see all the bearings of this unfortunate- " when Morri- son ...
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... don't happen - unheard of things . He had no real inkling of what it meant , till Heyst said defi- nitely : " I can lend you the amount . " " You have the money ? " whispered Morrison . " Do you mean here , in your pocket ? " " Yes , on ...
... don't happen - unheard of things . He had no real inkling of what it meant , till Heyst said defi- nitely : " I can lend you the amount . " " You have the money ? " whispered Morrison . " Do you mean here , in your pocket ? " " Yes , on ...
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... don't know . Out there he was by profession a hotel - keeper , first in Bangkok , then somewhere else , and ultimately in Sourabaya . He dragged after him up and down that section of the tropical belt a silent , frightened little woman ...
... don't know . Out there he was by profession a hotel - keeper , first in Bangkok , then somewhere else , and ultimately in Sourabaya . He dragged after him up and down that section of the tropical belt a silent , frightened little woman ...
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