Victory
/ Joseph Conrad
- Lexington, KY : Simon & Brown , 2012, c1915
- 410 p. ; 23 cm
Heyst was not conscious of either friends or of enemies. It was the very essence of his life to be a solitary achievement, accomplished not by hermit-like withdrawal with its silence and immobility, but by a system of restless wandering, by the detachment of an impermanent dweller amongst changing scenes.