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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... sort of animation - was an indolent volcano which smoked faintly all day with its head just above the northern horizon , and at night levelled at him , from amongst the clear stars , a dull red glow , expanding and collapsing ...
... sort of animation - was an indolent volcano which smoked faintly all day with its head just above the northern horizon , and at night levelled at him , from amongst the clear stars , a dull red glow , expanding and collapsing ...
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... sort , quite inky on its unlighted side . But the most conspicuous object was a gigantic blackboard raised on two posts and presenting to Heyst , when the moon got over that side , the white letters " T. B. C. Co. " in a row at least ...
... sort , quite inky on its unlighted side . But the most conspicuous object was a gigantic blackboard raised on two posts and presenting to Heyst , when the moon got over that side , the white letters " T. B. C. Co. " in a row at least ...
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... it 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.
... it 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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... sort of paying guest , but the real truth of the matter was more complex . One day Heyst turned up in Timor . Why in Timor , of all places in the world , no one knows . Well , he was mooning about Delli , that highly pestilential place ...
... sort of paying guest , but the real truth of the matter was more complex . One day Heyst turned up in Timor . Why in Timor , of all places in the world , no one knows . Well , he was mooning about Delli , that highly pestilential place ...
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... It appears that he stayed with a Dutch government doctor in Amboyna , a friend of his who looked after him for a bit in his bungalow . He became visible again rather suddenly his eyes sunk in his head , and with a sort of guarded 22 ...
... It appears that he stayed with a Dutch government doctor in Amboyna , a friend of his who looked after him for a bit in his bungalow . He became visible again rather suddenly his eyes sunk in his head , and with a sort of guarded 22 ...
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