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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... expressing the truth of an indomitable faith could not but feel the edge of a sharp knife at its throat . The unchanging Man of history is wonderfully adap- table both by his power of endurance and in his ca- pacity for detachment . The ...
... expressing the truth of an indomitable faith could not but feel the edge of a sharp knife at its throat . The unchanging Man of history is wonderfully adap- table both by his power of endurance and in his ca- pacity for detachment . The ...
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... expression . He was really in trouble . He had come the week before into Delli , and the Portuguese authorities , on some pretence of irregularity in his papers , had inflicted a fine upon him and had arrested his brig . Morrison never ...
... expression . He was really in trouble . He had come the week before into Delli , and the Portuguese authorities , on some pretence of irregularity in his papers , had inflicted a fine upon him and had arrested his brig . Morrison never ...
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... expressing his horror and incredulity of such foolishness , Heyst explained that when the company came into being he had his few belongings sent out from Europe . To Davidson as to any of us , the idea of Heyst , th wandering , drifting ...
... expressing his horror and incredulity of such foolishness , Heyst explained that when the company came into being he had his few belongings sent out from Europe . To Davidson as to any of us , the idea of Heyst , th wandering , drifting ...
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... expression . Davidson lifted his hat to her . Mrs. Schomberg gave him an inclination of her sallow head and incontinently sat down behind a sort of raised counter , facing the door , with a mirror and rows of bottles at her back . Her ...
... expression . Davidson lifted his hat to her . Mrs. Schomberg gave him an inclination of her sallow head and incontinently sat down behind a sort of raised counter , facing the door , with a mirror and rows of bottles at her back . Her ...
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... expression of opinions . Schomberg might have trained her , for domestic reasons , to keep them to herself . But Davidson felt in honour obliged to converse ; so he said , putting his own interpretation on this surprising silence : " I ...
... expression of opinions . Schomberg might have trained her , for domestic reasons , to keep them to herself . But Davidson felt in honour obliged to converse ; so he said , putting his own interpretation on this surprising silence : " I ...
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