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Victory: An Island Tale

Victory: An Island Tale

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Series: Oxford World's Classics

Classic FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $12.95

ISBN10: 0199554056
ISBN13: 9780199554058
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Sep 28 2009
Pages: 400
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.10 Depth: 7.60
Language: English
Victory was the last of Conrad's novels to be set in the Malay Archipelago. 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 brings her back to the island. 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.

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