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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... smiling stupidly over the billiards from time to time , speaking to no one , and no one speaking to her . Schom- berg himself took no more interest in her than may be implied in a sudden and totally unmotived scowl . Other- wise the ...
... smiling stupidly over the billiards from time to time , speaking to no one , and no one speaking to her . Schom- berg himself took no more interest in her than may be implied in a sudden and totally unmotived scowl . Other- wise the ...
Page 40
... smiling stupidly now and then . Davidson viewed her profile with a flattened nose , a hollow cheek , and one staring ... smile of a man making an amusing experiment . He spoke again to her : " But the other members of that orchestra were ...
... smiling stupidly now and then . Davidson viewed her profile with a flattened nose , a hollow cheek , and one staring ... smile of a man making an amusing experiment . He spoke again to her : " But the other members of that orchestra were ...
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... smiles with a serious round face . Heyst had taken the girl away to Sam- buran ; and that was no joking matter . The loneliness , the ruins of the spot , had impressed Davidson's simple soul . They were incompatible with the frivolous ...
... smiles with a serious round face . Heyst had taken the girl away to Sam- buran ; and that was no joking matter . The loneliness , the ruins of the spot , had impressed Davidson's simple soul . They were incompatible with the frivolous ...
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Joseph Conrad. The speaker laughed aloud , while all the others sat smiling . Davidson stopped . " Yes , rather . " His feelings were , he told us , those of bewildered resignation ; but of course that was no more visible to the others ...
Joseph Conrad. The speaker laughed aloud , while all the others sat smiling . Davidson stopped . " Yes , rather . " His feelings were , he told us , those of bewildered resignation ; but of course that was no more visible to the others ...
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... smiles , thanking him and apologizing for the liberty , exactly in his usual manner . Davidson had expected some change in the man , but there was none . Nothing in him betrayed the momentous fact that within that jungle there was a ...
... smiles , thanking him and apologizing for the liberty , exactly in his usual manner . Davidson had expected some change in the man , but there was none . Nothing in him betrayed the momentous fact that within that jungle there was a ...
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