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
... never laid a claim to that distinction . His detachment was too great to make any claims big or small on one's credulity . I will not say where I met him because I fear to give my readers a wrong impression , since a marked incongruity ...
... never laid a claim to that distinction . His detachment was too great to make any claims big or small on one's credulity . I will not say where I met him because I fear to give my readers a wrong impression , since a marked incongruity ...
Page xii
... never saw him again because I believe he went straight on board a mail - boat which left within the hour for other ports of call in the direction of Aspinall . Mr. Jones ' characteristic insolence belongs to another man of a quite ...
... never saw him again because I believe he went straight on board a mail - boat which left within the hour for other ports of call in the direction of Aspinall . Mr. Jones ' characteristic insolence belongs to another man of a quite ...
Page xiii
... never confided to me . Truth to say the only passenger on board that schooner who could have talked openly about his activities and purposes was a very snuffy and conversationally de- lightful friar , the Superior of a convent ...
... never confided to me . Truth to say the only passenger on board that schooner who could have talked openly about his activities and purposes was a very snuffy and conversationally de- lightful friar , the Superior of a convent ...
Page xv
... never . The impression was less vivid . I got away from him too quickly . It seems to me but natural that those three buried in a corner of my memory should suddenly get out into the light of the world - so natural that I offer no ...
... never . The impression was less vivid . I got away from him too quickly . It seems to me but natural that those three buried in a corner of my memory should suddenly get out into the light of the world - so natural that I offer no ...
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... never did that . Afraid of mosquitoes , very likely . Neither was he ever tempted by the silence to address any casual remarks to the companion glow of the volcano . He was not mad . Queer chap - yes , that may have been said , and in ...
... never did that . Afraid of mosquitoes , very likely . Neither was he ever tempted by the silence to address any casual remarks to the companion glow of the volcano . He was not mad . Queer chap - yes , that may have been said , and in ...
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