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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... perhaps from a sense of infinite littleness and which is yet the only faculty that seems to assimilate man to the immortal gods . It is only when the catastrophe matches the natural obscurity of our fate that even the best ...
... perhaps from a sense of infinite littleness and which is yet the only faculty that seems to assimilate man to the immortal gods . It is only when the catastrophe matches the natural obscurity of our fate that even the best ...
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... perhaps have tracked the ways of that man of immense sincerity for a little while but I had some of my own very pressing business to attend to , which in the end got mixed up with an earthquake and so I had no time to give to Ricardo ...
... perhaps have tracked the ways of that man of immense sincerity for a little while but I had some of my own very pressing business to attend to , which in the end got mixed up with an earthquake and so I had no time to give to Ricardo ...
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... perhaps they had only migrated to the other big café , on the other side of the Place de la Comédie . It is very possible . I did not go across to find out . It was my perfect idleness that had invested the girl with a peculiar charm ...
... perhaps they had only migrated to the other big café , on the other side of the Place de la Comédie . It is very possible . I did not go across to find out . It was my perfect idleness that had invested the girl with a peculiar charm ...
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... out suddenly , à propos des bottes , as the French say , and while chalking his cue . And perhaps it was some sort of enchantment . There are more spells than your commonplace magicians ever dreamed of . Roughly в VICTORY.
... out suddenly , à propos des bottes , as the French say , and while chalking his cue . And perhaps it was some sort of enchantment . There are more spells than your commonplace magicians ever dreamed of . Roughly в VICTORY.
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... Perhaps these were his attempts to break out . If so , they were failures . The enchantment must have been an un- breakable one . The manager - the man who heard the exclamation - had been so impressed by the tone , fervour , rapture ...
... Perhaps these were his attempts to break out . If so , they were failures . The enchantment must have been an un- breakable one . The manager - the man who heard the exclamation - had been so impressed by the tone , fervour , rapture ...
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