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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... shoulders in a moist gunny - bag . That was only his exaggerated style of talking . Morrison was " one of us . ' He was owner and master of the Capricorn , trading brig , and was understood to be doing well with her , except for the ...
... shoulders in a moist gunny - bag . That was only his exaggerated style of talking . Morrison was " one of us . ' He was owner and master of the Capricorn , trading brig , and was understood to be doing well with her , except for the ...
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... shoulder , his head down , with the hopeless aspect of those hard- ened tramps one sees on our roads trudging from work house to workhouse . Being hailed across the street he looked up with a wild worried expression . He was really in ...
... shoulder , his head down , with the hopeless aspect of those hard- ened tramps one sees on our roads trudging from work house to workhouse . Being hailed across the street he looked up with a wild worried expression . He was really in ...
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... shoulder for the cord of the eyeglass hanging down his back . When he found it , he stuck it in his eye hastily . It was ... shoulders and didn't want to miss a single detail of the transformation . But if Heyst was an angel from on high ...
... shoulder for the cord of the eyeglass hanging down his back . When he found it , he stuck it in his eye hastily . It was ... shoulders and didn't want to miss a single detail of the transformation . But if Heyst was an angel from on high ...
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... shoulders , in the slender white bust springing up , barred slantwise by the crimson sash , from the bell - shaped spread of muslin skirt hiding the chair on which she sat averted a little from the body of the hall . Her feet , in low ...
... shoulders , in the slender white bust springing up , barred slantwise by the crimson sash , from the bell - shaped spread of muslin skirt hiding the chair on which she sat averted a little from the body of the hall . Her feet , in low ...
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... shoulder with a deep sigh . " I am dead tired , " she whispered plaintively . He put his arms around her , and only by the con- vulsive movements of her body became aware that she was sobbing without a sound . Sustaining her , he lost ...
... shoulder with a deep sigh . " I am dead tired , " she whispered plaintively . He put his arms around her , and only by the con- vulsive movements of her body became aware that she was sobbing without a sound . Sustaining her , he lost ...
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