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Victory

An Island Tale

Introduction by Tony Tanner

An Island Tale

By Joseph Conrad
Introduction by Peter Mallios

By Joseph Conrad
Introduction by Peter Mallios

By Joseph Conrad
Introduction by Tony Tanner

By Joseph Conrad
Introduction by Tony Tanner

By Joseph Conrad
Introduction by Peter Mallios

By Joseph Conrad
Introduction by Peter Mallios

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Part of Modern Library Classics

Part of Everyman's Library Classics Series

Part of Modern Library Classics

Paperback $24.00

Jul 08, 2003 | ISBN 9780375759086

Hardcover $30.00

Oct 20, 1998 | ISBN 9780375400476

Ebook $3.99

Dec 18, 2007 | ISBN 9780307432841

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    About Victory

    Set in the islands of the Malay Archipelago, Victory tells the story of a disillusioned Swede, Axel Heyst, who rescues Lena, a young English musician, from the clutches of a brutish German hotel owner. Seeking refuge at Heyst’s remote island retreat on Samburan, the couple is soon besieged by three villains dispatched by the enraged hotelier. The arrival on the island paradise of this trio of fiends sets off a terrifying series of events that ultimately ends in catastrophe.

    “With Victory, Conrad inaugurated a new style and aesthetic,” writes Peter Lancelot Mallios in his Introduction. “The tremendous literary sophistication to be found in Victory does not result in the exclusion of the popular reader.”

    The text of this Modern Library Paperback Classic was set from the first British edition, published by Methuen & Co. in 1915.

    About Victory

    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.

    About Victory

    Set in the islands of the Malay Archipelago, Victory tells the story of a disillusioned Swede, Axel Heyst, who rescues Lena, a young English musician, from the clutches of a brutish German hotel owner. Seeking refuge at Heyst’s remote island retreat on Samburan, the couple is soon besieged by three villains dispatched by the enraged hotelier. The arrival on the island paradise of this trio of fiends sets off a terrifying series of events that ultimately ends in catastrophe.

    “With Victory, Conrad inaugurated a new style and aesthetic,” writes Peter Lancelot Mallios in his Introduction. “The tremendous literary sophistication to be found in Victory does not result in the exclusion of the popular reader.”

    The text of this Modern Library Paperback Classic was set from the first British edition, published by Methuen & Co. in 1915.

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    About Joseph Conrad

    Joseph Conrad was born in Berdichev, Ukraine, in 1857. After both of his parents died of tuberculosis, Conrad went to live with his uncle in Switzerland. After attending school in Kraków, he joined the French and then the British merchant marines,… More about Joseph Conrad

    About Joseph Conrad

    Joseph Conrad was born in Berdichev, Ukraine, in 1857. After both of his parents died of tuberculosis, Conrad went to live with his uncle in Switzerland. After attending school in Kraków, he joined the French and then the British merchant marines,… More about Joseph Conrad

    About Joseph Conrad

    Joseph Conrad was born in Berdichev, Ukraine, in 1857. After both of his parents died of tuberculosis, Conrad went to live with his uncle in Switzerland. After attending school in Kraków, he joined the French and then the British merchant marines,… More about Joseph Conrad

    Product Details

    Category: Classic Fiction | Literary Fiction | Suspense & Thriller

    Paperback | $24.00
    Published by Modern Library
    Jul 08, 2003 | 432 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780375759086

    Category: Classic Fiction | Literary Fiction | Suspense & Thriller

    Hardcover | $30.00
    Published by Everyman’s Library
    Oct 20, 1998 | 452 Pages | 4-7/8 x 8 | ISBN 9780375400476

    Category: Classic Fiction | Literary Fiction | Suspense & Thriller

    Ebook | $3.99
    Published by Modern Library
    Dec 18, 2007 | 432 Pages | ISBN 9780307432841

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