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One of the most powerful and psychologically compelling novels from Joseph Conrad, author of Lord Jim and Heart of Darkness

Axel Heyst, a dreamer and a restless drifter, believes he can avoid suffering by cutting himself off from others. Then he becomes... Read Full Overview

Victory - An Island Tale by Joseph Conrad is a classic psychological tale. Through a business trip, Axel Heyst ends up on an island in Indonesia, with a Chinese assistant Wang. Heyst pays visits to a nearby island when a female band is playing at a hotel owned by Mr. Schomberg... Read Full Overview

Victoria es para muchos cr ticos la ltima de las grandes novelas de Conrad, y tal vez la m s lograda. Una aventura para adultos con matices del g nero de misterio y de drama sicol gico, del que el propio Jack London dijo: Me alegro de estar vivo, aunque s lo sea por el mero... Read Full Overview

One of the greatest English writers of the 19th century was a Polish-born man who couldn't even speak English fluently until he had entered adulthood. Nevertheless, Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) went on to have a well-regarded literary career that bridged Romanticism and Modernism... Read Full Overview

Victory was the last of Conrad's novels to be set in the Malay Archipelago. It tells the story of Axel Heyst who, damaged by his dead father's nihilistic philosophy, has retreated from the world of commerce and colonial exploration to live alone on the island of Samburan. But... Read Full Overview

The world is a bad dog. It will bite you if you give it a chance, maintains Axel Heyst, a Swedish drifter in the Pacific islands. Heyst's attempt to remain aloof from the rest of humanity is challenged by his compassion for Lena, a destitute orchestra girl. Defying Lena's abusive... Read Full Overview

Victory: An Island Tale is the latest volume in the widely praised The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Joseph Conrad. Like its predecessors, this volume offers scholars an authoritative text, free from the interference of Conrad's typists, compositors and editors; a full scholarly... Read Full Overview

Victory (also published as Victory: An Island Tale) is a psychological novel by Joseph Conrad first published in 1915, through which Conrad achieved "popular success." The New York Times, however, called it "an uneven book" and "more open to criticism than most of Mr. Conrad's... Read Full Overview