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  • Victory An Island Tale

    Joseph Conrad

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  • Victory

    Joseph Conrad, George Guidall, Recorded Books

    Audible Audiobook (Recorded Books, July 8, 2011)
    From one of the greatest modern writers in world literature comes a magnificent story of love, adventure, and rescue, played out against the shimmering South Seas. Alone on a tropical island, a Swedish baron and a beautiful violinist discover the long-lost joys of love. But when two treasure hunters arrive on the beach, the lovers know that evil has invaded their romantic paradise-an evil they are powerless to stop. Victory is a timeless classic that showcases the probing psychological insight, the masterful drama, and the breathtaking atmosphere that have won Joseph Conrad generations of fans.
  • Victory

    Joseph Conrad

    Paperback (Dover Publications, Aug. 15, 2017)
    "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 boss, the two flee to an isolated paradise. But the vengeful employer sets a trio of miscreants on the lovers' trail, leading Heyst's growing moral courage to a deadly reckoning.First published in 1915, Victory is Conrad's last great novel. Its central question, whether a man of moral sensitivity can function in a corrupt and derelict world, is treated with the author's fundamental pessimism and with faith in the possibility of redemption. The tale abounds in elements characteristic of the great storyteller's later work: an exotic setting, richly and powerfully evoked; muscular prose; complex characterization; and a compelling examination of the human capacity for good and evil.
  • Victory

    Joseph Conrad, Tony Tanner

    Hardcover (Everyman's Library, Oct. 20, 1998)
    Joseph Conrad possessed a matchless gift for embodying life as it is lived under extreme physical and psychological pressure. Victory, his last masterpiece, tells the story of Axel Heyst, a radically isolated, philosophically minded soul living apart on a remote Pacific island, who performs two acts of instinctive kindness and thereby embroils himself in storms of greed and vengeance, and of love and mercy. When Heyst impulsively rescues a young English musician, Lena, from the predations of a lascivious hotel owner named Schomberg, he cannot know that she will be the means of releasing him from the emotional detachment with which he has long barricaded himself. Their affair does not last long, however, once the enraged Schomberg sends agents of revenge to invade Heyst’s island retreat. Out of the maelstrom of violence and tragedy that ensues, Conrad produces a profound, unflinching meditation on human connection and redemption.
  • Victory

    Joseph Conrad

    Paperback (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, May 11, 2009)
    Once regarded as comparatively minor amongst Conrad's works, Victory has grown in reputation. Its depiction of the central character, Axel Heyst, and his renunciation of the world, is influenced by Conrad's reading of Schopenhauer.
  • Victory

    Joseph Conrad

    Paperback (Independently published, Dec. 7, 2018)
    Complete and unabridged paperback edition.
  • Victory - A Novel by Joseph Conrad

    Joseph; Joseph Conrad Conrad

    Mass Market Paperback (Doubleday Anchor Books/ Doubleday & Company, Inc., March 15, 1957)
    Vintage paperback
  • Victory

    Joseph Conrad

    Hardcover (Simon & Brown, Oct. 5, 2016)
    Through a business misadventure, the European Axel Heyst ends up living on an island in what is now Indonesia, with a Chinese assistant Wang. Heyst visits a nearby island when a female band is playing at a hotel owned by Mr. Schomberg.
  • Victory: An Island Tale

    Joseph Conrad

    Paperback (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, Dec. 2, 2015)
    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 while also covering the zenith and twilight of the British empire. Conrad used his experience within the British empire to write novels and stories that often used the sea and navy as a setting, juxtaposing the individual human spirit with the collective duty and honor of the British navy. And though it was a second-language, Conrad mastered English prose.
  • Victory

    Joseph Conrad, Frederick R. Karl

    Mass Market Paperback (Signet Classics, Feb. 5, 1991)
    Baron Axel Heyst and his lover, Lena, a woman he has saved from a sordid life, share an idyllic existence on the island of Samburan until three intruders from Lena's past threaten to destroy their happiness
  • Victory: An Island Tale

    Joseph Conrad, Michael Pennington

    Audio Cassette (Penguin Audio, Dec. 1, 1997)
    In "Victory", the aloof Axel Heyst rescues Lena, a young English girl, from a touring orchestra and the leers of Schomberg, the hotelier. Heyst brings her to his Pacific island retreat, where their love affair begins. Meanwhile, the jealous Schomberg dispatches his henchmen to Samburan to retrieve Lena--and dispose of Heyst. 2 cassettes.
  • Victory

    Joseph Conrad, World literature

    Paperback (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, May 19, 2015)
    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 best work." The novel's "most striking formal characteristic is its shifting narrative and temporal perspective" with the first section from the viewpoint of a sailor, the second from omniscient perspective of Axel Heyst, the third from an interior perspective from Heyst, and the final section. It has been adapted into film a number of times.