Victory

An Island Tale

By: Joseph Conrad

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Hardcover | 22 October 1998 | Edition Number 1

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480 Pages

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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 Heyst's solitaryexistence ends when he rescues an English girl from her rapacious patron and brings her back to the island. She in turn recalls him to love and life, until the world breaks in on them once more with tragic consequences. In this love story Conrad created two of his psychologically most complex andcompelling characters in a narrative of great erotic power.This new edition uses the first edition text and includes a new chronology and bibliography.

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The wandering son of a nihilistic philosopher saves a member of an all-female orchestra from indignity and despair, and in the process entangles himself in the very thing he had always hoped to avoid - life. As the actors retreat into their fate on an island in the South China Seas, the novel begins to read like a deadly farcical reworking of The Tempest, but without the sweetness or the salvation. One of the saddest stories ever told. Review by Howard Jacobson, whose books include 'The Mighty Waltzer' (Kirkus UK)

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