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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... - table both by his power of endurance and in his ca- pacity for detachment . The fact seems to be that the play of his destiny is too great for his fears and too mysterious for his understanding . Were the trump of the ix.
... - table both by his power of endurance and in his ca- pacity for detachment . The fact seems to be that the play of his destiny is too great for his fears and too mysterious for his understanding . Were the trump of the ix.
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Joseph Conrad. mysterious for his understanding . Were the trump of the Last Judgment to sound 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 ...
Joseph Conrad. mysterious for his understanding . Were the trump of the Last Judgment to sound 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 ...
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... this stranger . this nondescript wanderer , said with a little bow across the table : " Oh ! If that's the case 1 would be very happy if you'd allow me to be of use ! " Morrison didn't understand . This was one of those things VICTORY 15.
... this stranger . this nondescript wanderer , said with a little bow across the table : " Oh ! If that's the case 1 would be very happy if you'd allow me to be of use ! " Morrison didn't understand . This was one of those things VICTORY 15.
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Joseph Conrad. Morrison didn't understand . This was one of those things that don't happen - unheard of things . He had no real inkling of what it meant , till Heyst said defi- nitely : " I can lend you the amount . " " You have the ...
Joseph Conrad. Morrison didn't understand . This was one of those things that don't happen - unheard of things . He had no real inkling of what it meant , till Heyst said defi- nitely : " I can lend you the amount . " " You have the ...
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... understand , was not proud of the episode , and he was afraid of being unmercifully chaffed . " An old bird like me ! To let myself be trapped by those damned Portuguese rascals ! I should never hear the last of it . We must keep it ...
... understand , was not proud of the episode , and he was afraid of being unmercifully chaffed . " An old bird like me ! To let myself be trapped by those damned Portuguese rascals ! I should never hear the last of it . We must keep it ...
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