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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... suddenly on a working day the musician at his piano would go on with his performance of Beethoven's Sonata and the cobbler at his stall stick to his last in undisturbed confidence in the virtues of the leather . And with perfect pro ...
... suddenly on a working day the musician at his piano would go on with his performance of Beethoven's Sonata and the cobbler at his stall stick to his last in undisturbed confidence in the virtues of the leather . And with perfect pro ...
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... sudden in- spiration to get out of his way . It was in a hovel of sticks and mats by the side of a path . As I went in there only to ask for a bottle of lemonade I have not to this day the slightest idea what in my appearance or actions ...
... sudden in- spiration to get out of his way . It was in a hovel of sticks and mats by the side of a path . As I went in there only to ask for a bottle of lemonade I have not to this day the slightest idea what in my appearance or actions ...
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... suddenly get out into the light of the world - so natural that I offer no excuse for their existence . They were there , they had to come out ; and this is a sufficient excuse for a writer of tales who had taken to his trade without ...
... suddenly get out into the light of the world - so natural that I offer no excuse for their existence . They were there , they had to come out ; and this is a sufficient excuse for a writer of tales who had taken to his trade without ...
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... 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.
... 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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... suddenly he had stumbled on a white man , figura- tively and actually white - for Morrison refused to accept the racial whiteness of the Portuguese officials . He let himself go for the mere relief of violent speech , his elbows planted ...
... suddenly he had stumbled on a white man , figura- tively and actually white - for Morrison refused to accept the racial whiteness of the Portuguese officials . He let himself go for the mere relief of violent speech , his elbows planted ...
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