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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Page vii
... stand at the head of a mere novel . There was also the possibility of falling under the sus- picion of commercial astuteness deceiving the public into the belief that the book had something to do with war . Of that , however , I was not ...
... stand at the head of a mere novel . There was also the possibility of falling under the sus- picion of commercial astuteness deceiving the public into the belief that the book had something to do with war . Of that , however , I was not ...
Page xi
... stands behind the in- finitely more familiar figure of the book I remember as a mysterious Swede right enough . Whether he was a baron , too , I am not so certain . He himself never laid a claim to that distinction . His detachment was ...
... stands behind the in- finitely more familiar figure of the book I remember as a mysterious Swede right enough . Whether he was a baron , too , I am not so certain . He himself never laid a claim to that distinction . His detachment was ...
Page 20
... stand . A rumour sprang out that Heyst , having ob tained some mysterious hold on Morrison , had fastened himself on him and was sucking him dry . Those who had traced these mutters back to their origin were very careful not to believe ...
... stand . A rumour sprang out that Heyst , having ob tained some mysterious hold on Morrison , had fastened himself on him and was sucking him dry . Those who had traced these mutters back to their origin were very careful not to believe ...
Page 46
... stand worse shocks , remonstrated in an undertone : " It's unreasonable to get so angry as that . Even if he had run off with your cash - box " ' The big hotel - keeper bent down and put his infuriated face close to Davidson's . " My ...
... stand worse shocks , remonstrated in an undertone : " It's unreasonable to get so angry as that . Even if he had run off with your cash - box " ' The big hotel - keeper bent down and put his infuriated face close to Davidson's . " My ...
Page 70
... stands with an aggressive and masterful gait . On the lap of that dress there lay , unclasped and idle , a pair of small hands , not very white , attached to well - formed arms . The next detail Heyst was led to observe was the ...
... stands with an aggressive and masterful gait . On the lap of that dress there lay , unclasped and idle , a pair of small hands , not very white , attached to well - formed arms . The next detail Heyst was led to observe was the ...
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