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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... give my readers a wrong impression , since a marked incongruity between a man and his surroundings is often a very mis leading circumstance . We became very friendly for a time and I would not like to expose him to unpleasant suspicions ...
... give my readers a wrong impression , since a marked incongruity between a man and his surroundings is often a very mis leading circumstance . We became very friendly for a time and I would not like to expose him to unpleasant suspicions ...
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... or even at me ( he would not even look up but kept his eyes fixed on the deck ) but more as if communing in a low voice with his familiar devil . Now and then he would give me a glance and make the hairs xii AUTHOR'S NOTE.
... or even at me ( he would not even look up but kept his eyes fixed on the deck ) but more as if communing in a low voice with his familiar devil . Now and then he would give me a glance and make the hairs xii AUTHOR'S NOTE.
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Joseph Conrad. he would give me a glance and make the hairs of his stiff little moustache stir quaintly . His eyes were green and to this day every cat I see reminds me of the exact contour of his face . What he was travelling for or ...
Joseph Conrad. he would give me a glance and make the hairs of his stiff little moustache stir quaintly . His eyes were green and to this day every cat I see reminds me of the exact contour of his face . What he was travelling for or ...
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... give to Ricardo . The reader need not be told that I have not forgotten him , though . My contact with the faithful Pedro was much shorter and my observation of him was less complete but incomparably more anxious . It ended in a sudden ...
... give to Ricardo . The reader need not be told that I have not forgotten him , though . My contact with the faithful Pedro was much shorter and my observation of him was less complete but incomparably more anxious . It ended in a sudden ...
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... Give me fever . Give me plague . They are diseases . One gets over them . But I am being murdered . I am being murdered by the Portuguese . The gang here downed me at last among them . I am to have my throat cut the day after to ...
... Give me fever . Give me plague . They are diseases . One gets over them . But I am being murdered . I am being murdered by the Portuguese . The gang here downed me at last among them . I am to have my throat cut the day after to ...
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