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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... trouble to remark on such slight evidence that the voice was very charming and when the performers resumed their seats I shifted my position slightly in order not to have that particular performer hidden from me by the little man with ...
... trouble to remark on such slight evidence that the voice was very charming and when the performers resumed their seats I shifted my position slightly in order not to have that particular performer hidden from me by the little man with ...
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... trouble . He had come the week before into Delli , and the Portuguese authorities , on some pretence of irregularity in his papers , had inflicted a fine upon him and had arrested his brig . Morrison never had any spare cash in hand ...
... trouble . He had come the week before into Delli , and the Portuguese authorities , on some pretence of irregularity in his papers , had inflicted a fine upon him and had arrested his brig . Morrison never had any spare cash in hand ...
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... trouble to myself . Words can't do it justice ; but since I've told you so much I may as well tell you more . Listen ... troubles 14 VICTORY.
... trouble to myself . Words can't do it justice ; but since I've told you so much I may as well tell you more . Listen ... troubles 14 VICTORY.
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Joseph Conrad. → man everlastingly bothering the Almighty with his silly troubles . It seems such cheek . Anyhow , this morning I - I have never done any harm to any God's creature knowingly - I prayed . A sudden impulse- I went flop on ...
Joseph Conrad. → man everlastingly bothering the Almighty with his silly troubles . It seems such cheek . Anyhow , this morning I - I have never done any harm to any God's creature knowingly - I prayed . A sudden impulse- I went flop on ...
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... trouble . ought not to have cared for his letters or whatever it was that brought him out after something more than a year and a half in Samburan . But it was of no use . He had not the hermit's vocation ! That was the trouble , it ...
... trouble . ought not to have cared for his letters or whatever it was that brought him out after something more than a year and a half in Samburan . But it was of no use . He had not the hermit's vocation ! That was the trouble , it ...
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