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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... woman at the piano might have been her mother , though there was not the slightest resemblance between them . All I am certain of in their personal re- lation to each other is that cruel pinch on the upper part of the arm . That I am ...
... woman at the piano might have been her mother , though there was not the slightest resemblance between them . All I am certain of in their personal re- lation to each other is that cruel pinch on the upper part of the arm . That I am ...
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... woman with long ringlets , who smiled at one stupidly , showing a blue tooth . I don't know why so many of us patronized his various establishments . He was a noxious ass , and he satisfied his lust for silly gossip at the cost of his ...
... woman with long ringlets , who smiled at one stupidly , showing a blue tooth . I don't know why so many of us patronized his various establishments . He was a noxious ass , and he satisfied his lust for silly gossip at the cost of his ...
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... woman came in who was looked upon as Schomberg's wife , no doubt with truth . As somebody remarked cynically once , she was too unattractive to be anything else . The opinion that he treated her abominably was based on her frightened ...
... woman came in who was looked upon as Schomberg's wife , no doubt with truth . As somebody remarked cynically once , she was too unattractive to be anything else . The opinion that he treated her abominably was based on her frightened ...
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... woman of the house — mean- ing Mrs. Schomberg — would give him the facts , though unable to explain them , of course . " What was there to explain ? " wondered Davidson dubiously . " He took a fancy to that fiddle - playing girl , and ...
... woman of the house — mean- ing Mrs. Schomberg — would give him the facts , though unable to explain them , of course . " What was there to explain ? " wondered Davidson dubiously . " He took a fancy to that fiddle - playing girl , and ...
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... woman , she whispered , just loud enough for me to hear : " I helped them . I got her things together , tied them up in my own shawl , and threw them into the compound out of a back window . I did it . ' " That woman that you would say ...
... woman , she whispered , just loud enough for me to hear : " I helped them . I got her things together , tied them up in my own shawl , and threw them into the compound out of a back window . I did it . ' " That woman that you would say ...
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