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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... he kept one ear turned to the cuddy in the manner of a devoted servant , but I had the idea that in some way of other he had imposed the connection on the invalid fo some end of his own . The reader therefore won't AUTHOR'S NOTE الله.
... he kept one ear turned to the cuddy in the manner of a devoted servant , but I had the idea that in some way of other he had imposed the connection on the invalid fo some end of his own . The reader therefore won't AUTHOR'S NOTE الله.
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... manner , it was persuasive , or at any rate silencing for a time , at least . Nobody cared to argue with him when he talked in this strain . His earnestness could do no harm to anybody . There was no danger of any one taking seriously ...
... manner , it was persuasive , or at any rate silencing for a time , at least . Nobody cared to argue with him when he talked in this strain . His earnestness could do no harm to anybody . There was no danger of any one taking seriously ...
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... manner of a prince addressing another prince on a private occasion : " What an unexpected pleasure . Would you have any objection to drink something with me in that in- famous wine - shop over there ? The sun is really too strong to ...
... manner of a prince addressing another prince on a private occasion : " What an unexpected pleasure . Would you have any objection to drink something with me in that in- famous wine - shop over there ? The sun is really too strong to ...
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... manner of his . Polite attention , what's due from one gentleman listen- ing to another , was what he showed ; and , as usual , it was catching ; so that Morrison pulled himself together and finished his narrative in a conversational ...
... manner of his . Polite attention , what's due from one gentleman listen- ing to another , was what he showed ; and , as usual , it was catching ; so that Morrison pulled himself together and finished his narrative in a conversational ...
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... manner , and he felt acutely his defect . Consummate politeness is not the right tonic for an emotional collapse . They must have had , both of them , a fairly painful time of it in the cabin of the brig . In the end Morrison , casting ...
... manner , and he felt acutely his defect . Consummate politeness is not the right tonic for an emotional collapse . They must have had , both of them , a fairly painful time of it in the cabin of the brig . In the end Morrison , casting ...
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