Victory Paperback - 1995
by Joseph Conrad; Robert Hampson (Editor); Introduction by Robert Hampson
Summary
Marked by a violent and tragic conclusion, Victory is both a tale of rescue and adventure and a perceptive study of a complex relationship and of the power of love.
First line
THERE is, as every schoolboy knows in this scientific age, a very close chemical relation between coal and diamonds.
From the rear cover
In Victory (1915) Conrad returns to the Malay Archipelago, to the setting of his first mature novel, Lord Jim, and in Axel Heyst he creates a hero who is in many ways similar to Jim, a noble altruist destroyed by his ideals. Heyst is emotionally crippled by the influence of his dead father, a sceptical philosopher who has bequeathed to Heyst an attitude to life summed up in the father's dying words: 'Look on - make no sound.' Despite this injunction Heyst allows himself to become inextricably involved with an English Cockney girl whom he rescues from Giancomo's Travelling Ladies' Orchestra and carries off to his isolated retreat on the island of Samburan. His action incurs the fatal wrath of Schomberg, the island's innkeeper, who sends in pursuit of Heyst three demonic strangers whose invasion of his island paradise leads rapidly to the novel's violent and tragic close. Victory was the first of Conrad's novels to be completed after the commercial success of Chance (1914) had transformed Conrad's fortunes and made him internationally famous. It is a more complex example of the literary form which Conrad evolved for Lord Jim: a story of action and high adventure coexisting with an exhaustive study of the psychology of the central character.
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- Title Victory
- Author Joseph Conrad; Robert Hampson (Editor); Introduction by Robert Hampson
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: repri
- Pages 416
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Group, New York
- Date November 1, 1995
- ISBN 9780140189780 / 0140189785
- Weight 0.7 lbs (0.32 kg)
- Dimensions 7.7 x 5.1 x 1 in (19.56 x 12.95 x 2.54 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Islands, Psychological fiction
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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