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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... seen ! There could be no mistake . I was in a too idle mood to im- agine such a gratuitous barbarity . It may have been playfulness , yet the girl jumped up as if she had been stung by a wasp . It may have been playfulness . Yet I saw ...
... seen ! There could be no mistake . I was in a too idle mood to im- agine such a gratuitous barbarity . It may have been playfulness , yet the girl jumped up as if she had been stung by a wasp . It may have been playfulness . Yet I saw ...
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... seen there . It just touched Saigon , and he was likewise seen there once . 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 ...
... seen there . It just touched Saigon , and he was likewise seen there once . 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 ...
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... seen how we live . Now you shall have the opportunity to see how some of us end ; for it is the end , for me . I can't deceive myself any longer . You see it , don't you ? " Morrison had pulled himself together , but one felt the ...
... seen how we live . Now you shall have the opportunity to see how some of us end ; for it is the end , for me . I can't deceive myself any longer . You see it , don't you ? " Morrison had pulled himself together , but one felt the ...
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... seen him . " As I have said , we were not much interested ; but Schomberg , of course , could not understand that . He was grotesquely dense . Whenever three people came together in his hotel , he took good care that Heyst should be ...
... seen him . " As I have said , we were not much interested ; but Schomberg , of course , could not understand that . He was grotesquely dense . Whenever three people came together in his hotel , he took good care that Heyst should be ...
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... seen approach- ing a group of his customers . He was obviously in high glee . He squared his manly chest with great importance . “ Gentlemen , I have news of him . Who ? Why , that Swede . He is still on Samburan . He's never been away ...
... seen approach- ing a group of his customers . He was obviously in high glee . He squared his manly chest with great importance . “ Gentlemen , I have news of him . Who ? Why , that Swede . He is still on Samburan . He's never been away ...
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