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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... Silent and wide - eyed she went from table to table with the air of a sleep - walker and with no other sound but the slight rattle of the coins ' to attract attention . It was long after the sea - chapter of my life had been closed but ...
... Silent and wide - eyed she went from table to table with the air of a sleep - walker and with no other sound but the slight rattle of the coins ' to attract attention . It was long after the sea - chapter of my life had been closed but ...
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... 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 fact was said ; but there is a tremendous difference between the two , you will allow On ...
... 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 fact was said ; but there is a tremendous difference between the two , you will allow On ...
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Joseph Conrad. On the nights of full moon the silence around Sam- buran - the " Round Island " of the charts - was daz- zling ; and in the flood of cold light Heyst could see his immediate surroundings , which had the aspect of an ...
Joseph Conrad. On the nights of full moon the silence around Sam- buran - the " Round Island " of the charts - was daz- zling ; and in the flood of cold light Heyst could see his immediate surroundings , which had the aspect of an ...
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... silent , with no soul to turn to in his distress , and positively maddened by his thoughts ; and suddenly he had stumbled on a white man , figura- tively and actually white - for Morrison refused to accept the racial whiteness of the ...
... silent , with no soul to turn to in his distress , and positively maddened by his thoughts ; and suddenly he had stumbled on a white man , figura- tively and actually white - for Morrison refused to accept the racial whiteness of the ...
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... silence . A gentleman would natu- rally shrink from the part of heavenly messenger that Morrison would force upon him . It made Heyst un- comfortable , as it was . And perhaps he did not care that it should be known that he had some ...
... silence . A gentleman would natu- rally shrink from the part of heavenly messenger that Morrison would force upon him . It made Heyst un- comfortable , as it was . And perhaps he did not care that it should be known that he had some ...
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