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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... step up , his blinking . cushioned eyes , his thick lips , his very chestnut beard , looking full of malice . 66 ' Evening , gentlemen . Have you got all you want ? So ! Good ! Well , I am told the jungle has choked the very sheds in ...
... step up , his blinking . cushioned eyes , his thick lips , his very chestnut beard , looking full of malice . 66 ' Evening , gentlemen . Have you got all you want ? So ! Good ! Well , I am told the jungle has choked the very sheds in ...
Page 57
... step in . Ah , well ! " He sat down in the stern - sheets , and already had the steering lines in his hands when Heyst observed abruptly : " The world is a bad dog . It will bite you if you give it a chance ; but I think that here we ...
... step in . Ah , well ! " He sat down in the stern - sheets , and already had the steering lines in his hands when Heyst observed abruptly : " The world is a bad dog . It will bite you if you give it a chance ; but I think that here we ...
Page 67
... step in and listen to a piece or two of an evening ? Not he . I know him of old . There he sits at the dark end of the piazza , all the evening long - planning some new swindle , no doubt . For twopence I would ask him to go and look ...
... step in and listen to a piece or two of an evening ? Not he . I know him of old . There he sits at the dark end of the piazza , all the evening long - planning some new swindle , no doubt . For twopence I would ask him to go and look ...
Page 68
... steps , lifted a calico curtain , and went in . The uproar in that small , barn - like structure , built of imported pine boards , and raised clear of the ground , was simply stunning . An instrumental uproar , scream- ing , grunting ...
... steps , lifted a calico curtain , and went in . The uproar in that small , barn - like structure , built of imported pine boards , and raised clear of the ground , was simply stunning . An instrumental uproar , scream- ing , grunting ...
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... steps from the platform to the floor of the hall . There she paused , stumbled one pace forward , and stood still again , while the other -the escort , the dragoon , the coarse big woman of the piano — passed her roughly , and ...
... steps from the platform to the floor of the hall . There she paused , stumbled one pace forward , and stood still again , while the other -the escort , the dragoon , the coarse big woman of the piano — passed her roughly , and ...
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