
Victory
Joseph Conrad(Author)
Oxford University Press
Published in May 2004
Book
Paperback/Softback
392 pages
978-0-19-280175-3 (ISBN)
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Description
'Victory, don't forget, has come out of my innermost self.' Victory was the last of Conrad's novels to be set in the Malay Archipelago. Sub-titled 'An Island Tale', 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 solitary existence ends when he rescues an English girl from her rapacious patron and takes her off to his retreat. 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 and compelling characters in a narrative of great erotic power. This new edition uses the English first edition text and has a new chronology and bibliography.
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Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
Readers and students of literary fiction, Conrad, the twentieth-century novel, modernism, English Literature
Edition type
New edition
Illustrations
1 Karte
1 map
Dimensions
Height: 196 mm
Width: 129 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-19-280175-3 (9780192801753)
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Victory
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MARA KALNINS, Fellow in English, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge