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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... walked out of the room . It was in a little hotel in the Island of St. Thomas in the West Indies ( in the year '75 ) where we found him one hot afternoon extended on three chairs , all alone in the loud buzzing of flies to which his ...
... walked out of the room . It was in a little hotel in the Island of St. Thomas in the West Indies ( in the year '75 ) where we found him one hot afternoon extended on three chairs , all alone in the loud buzzing of flies to which his ...
Page 72
... walked up the central passage . Several of the women , by this time , had found anchorage here and there among the occupied tables . They talked to the men , leaning on their elbows , and suggesting funnily - if it hadn't been for the ...
... walked up the central passage . Several of the women , by this time , had found anchorage here and there among the occupied tables . They talked to the men , leaning on their elbows , and suggesting funnily - if it hadn't been for the ...
Page 92
... walked almost unwittingly into the straggling group of Zangia como's performers . It was a shock to him , on coming out of his brown study , to find the girl so near him , as one waking suddenly should see the figure of his dream turned ...
... walked almost unwittingly into the straggling group of Zangia como's performers . It was a shock to him , on coming out of his brown study , to find the girl so near him , as one waking suddenly should see the figure of his dream turned ...
Page 105
... walked about swearing and fuming for the purpose of screwing his courage up to the sticking point . " Hang me if I ought not to go now , at once , this minute , into his bedroom , and tell him to be off - him and that secretary of his ...
... walked about swearing and fuming for the purpose of screwing his courage up to the sticking point . " Hang me if I ought not to go now , at once , this minute , into his bedroom , and tell him to be off - him and that secretary of his ...
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... walked about slowly , in and out of the room and the verandah , thoughtful , waiting for his two guests to go to bed . Then suddenly he approached them , militarily , his chest thrown out , his voice curt and soldierly , " Hot night ...
... walked about slowly , in and out of the room and the verandah , thoughtful , waiting for his two guests to go to bed . Then suddenly he approached them , militarily , his chest thrown out , his voice curt and soldierly , " Hot night ...
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