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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... gave a most gruesome significance . Our invasion must have displeased him because he got off the chairs brusquely and walked out leaving with me an indelibly weird impression of his thin shanks . One of the men with me said that the ...
... gave a most gruesome significance . Our invasion must have displeased him because he got off the chairs brusquely and walked out leaving with me an indelibly weird impression of his thin shanks . One of the men with me said that the ...
Page 12
... gave him a week's grace , and then proposed to sell the brig at auction . This meani ruin for Morrison ; and when Heyst hailed him across the street in his usual courtly tone , the week was nearly out . Heyst crossed over , and said ...
... gave him a week's grace , and then proposed to sell the brig at auction . This meani ruin for Morrison ; and when Heyst hailed him across the street in his usual courtly tone , the week was nearly out . Heyst crossed over , and said ...
Page 33
... gave one of his courtly bows , and declared that he was touched by his friendly proceedings . “ I am not alluding to this trifling amount which you decline to take , " he went on , giving a shake to Davidson's hand . " But I am touched ...
... gave one of his courtly bows , and declared that he was touched by his friendly proceedings . “ I am not alluding to this trifling amount which you decline to take , " he went on , giving a shake to Davidson's hand . " But I am touched ...
Page 38
... 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 hair was very elaborately done with two ringlets on the left ...
... 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 hair was very elaborately done with two ringlets on the left ...
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... gave her an appearance of listening intently . Perhaps she was really listening . but Schomberg must have been finishing his sleep in some distant part of the house . The silence was pro- found , and lasted long enough to become ...
... gave her an appearance of listening intently . Perhaps she was really listening . but Schomberg must have been finishing his sleep in some distant part of the house . The silence was pro- found , and lasted long enough to become ...
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