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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... So inconceivable that as they were trudging together through the sand of the roadway to the custom - house- another mud hovel - to pay the fine , Morrison broke into a cold sweat , stopped short , and exclaimed 16 VICTORY.
... So inconceivable that as they were trudging together through the sand of the roadway to the custom - house- another mud hovel - to pay the fine , Morrison broke into a cold sweat , stopped short , and exclaimed 16 VICTORY.
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Joseph Conrad. into a cold sweat , stopped short , and exclaimed in falter ing accents : “ I say ! You aren't joking , Heyst ? " 66 Joking ! " Heyst's blue eyes went hard as he turned them on the discomposed Morrison . “ In what way ...
Joseph Conrad. into a cold sweat , stopped short , and exclaimed in falter ing accents : “ I say ! You aren't joking , Heyst ? " 66 Joking ! " Heyst's blue eyes went hard as he turned them on the discomposed Morrison . “ In what way ...
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... stopped to consider , or he couldn't have done it . No sane man How is a thing like that to go on ? What's he going to do with her in the end ? It's madness . " " You say that he's mad . Schomberg tells us that he must be starving on ...
... stopped to consider , or he couldn't have done it . No sane man How is a thing like that to go on ? What's he going to do with her in the end ? It's madness . " " You say that he's mad . Schomberg tells us that he must be starving on ...
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... stopped at the door , deep in his simplicity . " I am sorry you won't tell me anything about my friend's absence , " he said . " My friend Heyst , you know . I suppose the only course for me now is to make inquiries down at the port . I ...
... stopped at the door , deep in his simplicity . " I am sorry you won't tell me anything about my friend's absence , " he said . " My friend Heyst , you know . I suppose the only course for me now is to make inquiries down at the port . I ...
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... stopped . " Yes , rather . " His feelings were , he told us , those of bewildered resignation ; but of course that was no more visible to the others than the emotions of a turtle when it withdraws into its shell . " It seems ...
... stopped . " Yes , rather . " His feelings were , he told us , those of bewildered resignation ; but of course that was no more visible to the others than the emotions of a turtle when it withdraws into its shell . " It seems ...
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