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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Page xi
... leaving a trace . I wondered where he had gone to but now I know . He vanished from my ker only to drift into this adventure that , unavoidable , waited for him in a world which he persisted in look- ing upon as a malevolent shadow ...
... leaving a trace . I wondered where he had gone to but now I know . He vanished from my ker only to drift into this adventure that , unavoidable , waited for him in a world which he persisted in look- ing upon as a malevolent shadow ...
Page xii
... leaving with me an indelibly weird impression of his thin shanks . One of the men with me said that the fellow was the most desperate gambler he had ever come across . I said : " A profes- sional sharper ? " and got for answer : " He's ...
... leaving with me an indelibly weird impression of his thin shanks . One of the men with me said that the fellow was the most desperate gambler he had ever come across . I said : " A profes- sional sharper ? " and got for answer : " He's ...
Page xv
... leave her out it would look like a slight ; and nothing would be further from my thoughts than putting a slight on Lena . If of all the personages involved in the " mystery of Samburan " I have lived longest with Heyst ( or with him I ...
... leave her out it would look like a slight ; and nothing would be further from my thoughts than putting a slight on Lena . If of all the personages involved in the " mystery of Samburan " I have lived longest with Heyst ( or with him I ...
Page 36
... leave at midnight . " Not - here , I am telling you ! " Davidson slapped his thigh in concern . " Dear me ! Hospital , I suppose . ' enough surmise in a very feverish locality . A natural The Lieutenant of the Reserve only pursed up his ...
... leave at midnight . " Not - here , I am telling you ! " Davidson slapped his thigh in concern . " Dear me ! Hospital , I suppose . ' enough surmise in a very feverish locality . A natural The Lieutenant of the Reserve only pursed up his ...
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... leave their victim afflicted by nervous trembling . It looked as though he would never get over it . دو " Mrs. Schomberg jerked Heyst's note , twisted like a pipe - light , into my lap while I sat there unsuspecting , ' Davidson went on ...
... leave their victim afflicted by nervous trembling . It looked as though he would never get over it . دو " Mrs. Schomberg jerked Heyst's note , twisted like a pipe - light , into my lap while I sat there unsuspecting , ' Davidson went on ...
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