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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... fastened on to him many words heard on other men's lips and belonging to other men's less perfect , less pathetic moods . The same observation will apply mutatis mutandis to Mr. Jones , who is built on a much AUTHOR'S NOTE xi.
... fastened on to him many words heard on other men's lips and belonging to other men's less perfect , less pathetic moods . The same observation will apply mutatis mutandis to Mr. Jones , who is built on a much AUTHOR'S NOTE xi.
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... lips , his very chestnut beard , looking full of malice . 66 ' Evening , gentlemen . Have you got all you want ? So ! Good ! Well , I am told the jungle has choked the very sheds in Black Diamond Bav . Fact . He's a hermit in the ...
... lips , his very chestnut beard , looking full of malice . 66 ' Evening , gentlemen . Have you got all you want ? So ! Good ! Well , I am told the jungle has choked the very sheds in Black Diamond Bav . Fact . He's a hermit in the ...
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... lips seemed made of wood . " They stayed here over a month . They are gone now . They played every evening . ” " Pretty good , were they ? " To this she said nothing ; and as she kept on staring fixedly in front of her , her silence ...
... lips seemed made of wood . " They stayed here over a month . They are gone now . They played every evening . ” " Pretty good , were they ? " To this she said nothing ; and as she kept on staring fixedly in front of her , her silence ...
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... lips , because just then the head boy appeared with a loaded tray , on his way out . Schom- berg went to the door and greeted the customers outside , but did not join them . He remained blocking half the doorway , with his back to the ...
... lips , because just then the head boy appeared with a loaded tray , on his way out . Schom- berg went to the door and greeted the customers outside , but did not join them . He remained blocking half the doorway , with his back to the ...
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... lips did certainly move . But what sort of word could it have been to make the girl jump up so swiftly ? Heyst , at his table was surprised into a sympathetic start . He glanced quickly round . Nobody was looking towards the plat form ...
... lips did certainly move . But what sort of word could it have been to make the girl jump up so swiftly ? Heyst , at his table was surprised into a sympathetic start . He glanced quickly round . Nobody was looking towards the plat form ...
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