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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... tone in which there was no grati- tude but only surprise . I must have been idle indeed to take the trouble to remark on such slight evidence that the voice was very charming and when the performers resumed their seats I shifted my ...
... tone in which there was no grati- tude but only surprise . I must have been idle indeed to take the trouble to remark on such slight evidence that the voice was very charming and when the performers resumed their seats I shifted my ...
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... tone , fervour , rapture , what you will , or perhaps by the incongruity of it that he had related the experience to more than one person . " Queer chap , that Swede , " was his only comment ; but this is the origin of the name ...
... tone , fervour , rapture , what you will , or perhaps by the incongruity of it that he had related the experience to more than one person . " Queer chap , that Swede , " was his only comment ; but this is the origin of the name ...
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... tone , the week was nearly out . Heyst crossed over , and said with a slight bow , and in the manner of a prince addressing another prince on a private occasion : " What an unexpected pleasure . Would you have any objection to drink ...
... tone , the week was nearly out . Heyst crossed over , and said with a slight bow , and in the manner of a prince addressing another prince on a private occasion : " What an unexpected pleasure . Would you have any objection to drink ...
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... he showed ; and , as usual , it was catching ; so that Morrison pulled himself together and finished his narrative in a conversational tone , with man - of - the - world air . " It's a villainous plot . Unluckily , one is VICTORY 13.
... he showed ; and , as usual , it was catching ; so that Morrison pulled himself together and finished his narrative in a conversational tone , with man - of - the - world air . " It's a villainous plot . Unluckily , one is VICTORY 13.
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... tone . " I think I will sit down for a moment and have a drink , after all . " This was not what Schomberg had expected to hear . He called brutally : " Boy ! " The Chinaman approached , and after referring him to the white man by a nod ...
... tone . " I think I will sit down for a moment and have a drink , after all . " This was not what Schomberg had expected to hear . He called brutally : " Boy ! " The Chinaman approached , and after referring him to the white man by a nod ...
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