Victory: An Island Tale Paperback - 1996
by Joseph Conrad; John Batchelor (Editor); Introduction by Tony Tanner
Summary
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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: An Island Tale
- Author Joseph Conrad; John Batchelor (Editor); Introduction by Tony Tanner
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 2nd Impression
- Pages 472
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Oxford University Press, USA, Oxford
- Date July 18, 1996
- ISBN 9780192817082 / 0192817086
- Weight 0.58 lbs (0.26 kg)
- Dimensions 7.34 x 4.58 x 0.77 in (18.64 x 11.63 x 1.96 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: British
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Sex & Gender: Lesbian
- Topical: Family
- Topical: Lgbt
- Library of Congress subjects Psychological fiction, Indonesia
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 85028547
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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