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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... attitude , movement , voice , which was his obvious characteristic , he had said with delicate playfulness : " Come along and quench your thirst with us , Mr. McNab ! " Perhaps that was it . A man who could propose 8 VICTORY.
... attitude , movement , voice , which was his obvious characteristic , he had said with delicate playfulness : " Come along and quench your thirst with us , Mr. McNab ! " Perhaps that was it . A man who could propose 8 VICTORY.
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... movement , without voice , without sight . " Why , she helped the girl to bolt , " said Davidson turning at me his innocent eyes , rounded by the state of constant amazement in which this affair had left him , like those shocks of ...
... movement , without voice , without sight . " Why , she helped the girl to bolt , " said Davidson turning at me his innocent eyes , rounded by the state of constant amazement in which this affair had left him , like those shocks of ...
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... movements of the bare arms , in the low dresses , the coarse faces , the stony eyes of the executants , there was a suggestion of brutality - some- thing cruel , sensual and repulsive . " This is awful ! " Heyst murmured to himself ...
... movements of the bare arms , in the low dresses , the coarse faces , the stony eyes of the executants , there was a suggestion of brutality - some- thing cruel , sensual and repulsive . " This is awful ! " Heyst murmured to himself ...
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... movements ; for indeed he was not the only man on his legs there . He had been confronting the girl for some time ... movement . It was only when Heyst addressed her in his courteous tone that she raised her eyes . " Excuse me , " he ...
... movements ; for indeed he was not the only man on his legs there . He had been confronting the girl for some time ... movement . It was only when Heyst addressed her in his courteous tone that she raised her eyes . " Excuse me , " he ...
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... movements of her body became aware that she was sobbing without a sound . Sustaining her , he lost himself in the profound silence of the night . After a while she became still , and cried quietly . Then , sud- denly , as if waking up ...
... movements of her body became aware that she was sobbing without a sound . Sustaining her , he lost himself in the profound silence of the night . After a while she became still , and cried quietly . Then , sud- denly , as if waking up ...
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