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Original Title:	An Island Tale
ISBN:	0140189785 (ISBN13: 9780140189780)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Axel Heyst, Mr. Schomberg, Martin Ricardo

Victory

Joseph Conrad

Paperback | Pages: 410 pages

Rating: 3.85 | 3147 Users | 271 Reviews

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Title	:	Victory
Author	:	Joseph Conrad
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 410 pages
Published	:	November 1st 1995 by Penguin Classics (first published 1915)
Categories	:	Fiction. Classics. Literature

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Axel Heyst, a dreamer and a restless drifter, believes he can avoid suffering by cutting himself off from others. Then he becomes involved in the operation of a coal company on a remote island in the Malay Archipelago, and when it fails he turns his back on humanity once more. But his life alters when he rescues a young English girl, Lena, from Zangiacomo's Ladies' Orchestra and the evil innkeeper Schomberg, taking her to his island retreat. The affair between Heyst and Lena begins with her release, but the relationship shifts as Lena struggles to save Heyst from the detachment and isolation that have inhibited and influenced his life.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.

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Ratings: 3.85 From 3147 Users | 271 Reviews

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2.5 StarsA very slow start kinda marred the entire book. It took forever to get into, so even when it got more interesting, I hardly cared.

Axel Heyst, the "Swede," is running away, but since it is himself he wants to escape from, that is clearly an unattainable goal. Growing up with his crank of a father, a widower, in London Town, the elder Heyst, writes little books of his unpopular philosophy , making a small profit, from the few, who like them, and just gets by ... Having fled his native land, they didn't understand the Baron's unusual ideas ( not sure if he deserved that title), as nowhere else does, either. He despises the

I read pretty much everything Conrad wrote back in the 80's but having booked a holiday in Indonesia I had to take one of his far-eastern novels. Great to read about the "dead-calm Java Sea" while looking out over the dead-calm Java Sea. Anyway,1. No-one writes better than Conrad in English. Some are as good (but different - Pynchon, Dickens, even Updike) but no-one is better.2. Only those that haven't read him associate him with adventure books for boys. What he is really about is the

2.5 StarsA very slow start kinda marred the entire book. It took forever to get into, so even when it got more interesting, I hardly cared.

If you feel like reading a complex psychological novel that will make you ponder the meaning of life, this is a book for you. Not that you will be provided with any definite answers, mind you. Victory strikes me as a rather ambiguous work, one that is (intentionally left) open to interpretations. Consequently, if you like clear questions and answers, this is not a novel for you, for there is a lot to ponder in this one. Nevertheless, I must hurry to add the novel is not written as a

Now and then, we must leave the literature of our day and delve deeper--in time and in literary style. Joseph Conrad has survived time as a classic, because his work is of classic quality. I submerged into Victory as into cool, deep water, to emerge refreshed and moved by the literary experience. Woe, yes, to the man whose heart has not learned to hope or love (and is love without hope possible?) or trust in life. Without hope, without love, without trust, life is but a living death. Axel Heyst,

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