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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... hand which accompanied the phrase suggested tropical distances being impelled onward . In connection with the fin- ished courtesy of his manner , it was persuasive , or at any rate silencing for a time , at least . Nobody cared to argue ...
... hand which accompanied the phrase suggested tropical distances being impelled onward . In connection with the fin- ished courtesy of his manner , it was persuasive , or at any rate silencing for a time , at least . Nobody cared to argue ...
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... hand a long glass emptied of its contents - paid for by Heyst - he said , with that deliberate sagacity which no mere water - drinker ever attained : " Heyst's a puffect g'n'lman . Puffect ! But he's a ut - uto - utopist . " Heyst had ...
... hand a long glass emptied of its contents - paid for by Heyst - he said , with that deliberate sagacity which no mere water - drinker ever attained : " Heyst's a puffect g'n'lman . Puffect ! But he's a ut - uto - utopist . " Heyst had ...
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... hand . With : his system of trading it would have been strange if he had ; and all these debts entered in the pocketbook weren't good enough to raise a milrei on - let alone a shilling . The Portuguese officials begged him not to ...
... hand . With : his system of trading it would have been strange if he had ; and all these debts entered in the pocketbook weren't good enough to raise a milrei on - let alone a shilling . The Portuguese officials begged him not to ...
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... hand . Morrison hadn't . He had only a little English gold , a few sovereigns , on board . He had left all his spare cash with the Tesmans , in Samarang , to meet certain bills which would fall due while he was away on his cruise ...
... hand . Morrison hadn't . He had only a little English gold , a few sovereigns , on board . He had left all his spare cash with the Tesmans , in Samarang , to meet certain bills which would fall due while he was away on his cruise ...
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... hand , which Heyst grasped with formal alacrity and a polite murmur in which " Trifle delighted - of service , " could be just dis- tinguished . " Miracles do happen , " thought the awestruck Morrison . To him , as to all of us in the ...
... hand , which Heyst grasped with formal alacrity and a polite murmur in which " Trifle delighted - of service , " could be just dis- tinguished . " Miracles do happen , " thought the awestruck Morrison . To him , as to all of us in the ...
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