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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... verandah with his cheroot , the last thing before going to bed , he made in the night the same sort of glow and of the same size as that other one so many miles away . In a sense , the volcano was company to him in the shades of the ...
... verandah with his cheroot , the last thing before going to bed , he made in the night the same sort of glow and of the same size as that other one so many miles away . In a sense , the volcano was company to him in the shades of the ...
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... verandah I beg pardon , the piazza ; the scraping of chairs , the ping of a smitten bell . Customers were turn- ing up . Mrs. Schomberg was begging Davidson hurriedly , but without looking at him , to say nothing to any one , when on a ...
... verandah I beg pardon , the piazza ; the scraping of chairs , the ping of a smitten bell . Customers were turn- ing up . Mrs. Schomberg was begging Davidson hurriedly , but without looking at him , to say nothing to any one , when on a ...
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... verandah . The party of customers there had become aware of the explosive interlude in the doorway . Davidson knew one of these men , and nod- ded to him in passing ; but his acquaintance called out : " Isn't he in a filthy temper ...
... verandah . The party of customers there had become aware of the explosive interlude in the doorway . Davidson knew one of these men , and nod- ded to him in passing ; but his acquaintance called out : " Isn't he in a filthy temper ...
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... verandah , after chasing each other all over the house , doors slamming , women screaming , seventeen of them , in the dining - room ; Chinamen up the trees - Hey , John ! You climb tree to see the fight , eh ? " The boy , almond - eyed ...
... verandah , after chasing each other all over the house , doors slamming , women screaming , seventeen of them , in the dining - room ; Chinamen up the trees - Hey , John ! You climb tree to see the fight , eh ? " The boy , almond - eyed ...
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... verandah . " And the funniest part is , " resumed the man who had been speaking before an English clerk in a Dutch house " the funniest part is that before nine o'clock that same morning those two were driving together in a gharry down ...
... verandah . " And the funniest part is , " resumed the man who had been speaking before an English clerk in a Dutch house " the funniest part is that before nine o'clock that same morning those two were driving together in a gharry down ...
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