Victory
Where to buy Victory books online?
Product Description
Victory was the last of Conrad’s novels to be set in the Malay Archipelago. It tells the tale of Axel Heyst who, hurt 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 being ends when he rescues an English girl from her rapacious client and brings her back to the island. She in turn recalls him to like and life, until the world breaks in on them once more with tragic consequences. In this like tale Conrad made two of his psychologically most complex and compelling characters in a narrative of fantastic erotic power.
This new edition uses the first edition text and includes a new chronology and bibliography.
Buy Cheap Victory Online
Related posts:
- Victory: An Island Tale
- Victory over the Darkness: Realizing the Power of Your Identity in Christ
- Every Man’s Battle: Winning the War on Sexual Temptation One Victory at a Time
- Conservative Victory: Defeating Obama’s Radical Agenda
- Every Young Man’s Battle: Strategies for Victory in the Real World of Sexual Temptation
Conrad is the second of Mencken-recommended authors I have read since reading a Carl Bode biography of H.L. Mencken. In that biography, Mencken said Conrad, as well as Theodore Dreisier and Sinclair Lewis, were the best realists who approached life through their writings as Mencken saw the world. Creative loners whose ambition is challenged by the dreadful humans surrounding them. Heyst, Victory’s main character, is similar to the main character in Dreiser’s “The Genius.”
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
that is an additional message i got from this very readable, chilling book. Additional reviewers have already touched upon many aspects of this book, so i won’t replicate. One of the most illuminating books i have read, and i read this about 15 years ago.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
Conrad’s brilliance in my eyes is heightened by the fact that he is writing in his second language, English. In Britain we aver him as British and in Poland he is is claimed as Polish – and why wouldn’t we all aver this genius of the descriptive, the fleshing out of characters and the forceful and taciturn dialogue. Based on his experiences at sea at the turn of the century all these books – and Victory: An Island Tale is no exception – it is 5 stars. But one word of warning – if you want to get to know Conrad – avoid movies – such as the Sam Neil Willem Dafoe – disasters. Read him. His books cannot be effectively translated to the screen as they depend too much on the imagination of the reader. The screen only serves to diminish his work
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
I suppose it is rather a commonplace to find an leader you like and set out to read all his works until you chance across one of them that is not so very excellent at all, that seems at times as if it were written by some additional, less magisterial, leader and are taken aback: Such is the case with me, Joseph Conrad and this book.
I shall not even attempt a plot synopsis because a) The additional reviewers have belaboured it to death and, b) It’s embarrassingly silly and missing in all subtlety, pace to all who establish the “thriller” aspects here so exciting. There is also the issue of racialism here so pervasively thrust upon the reader, with nearly every additional page containing lines such as, “A meditation is permanently – in a white man, at least – more or less an interrogative exercise.” Such constant lack of hint – in a writer, at least – is more or less the death of him as an artist. Some of the reviews here made me laugh at their attempts to dismiss all this. Where, this reader wants to question, to beseech, is the stylistic atavism of, say, Lord Jim and Conrad’s additional fantastic books which cape whatever such notions Conrad may or may not have possessed himself in the mystery and deeps of time?
The only redeeming feature to the book is Conrad’s prose, which still sings, especially in the – astutely noticed by others – passages reminiscent of The Tempest, “The islands are very silent. One sees them lying about, clothed in their dark garments of leaves, in a hush of silver and azure, where the sea lacking murmurs meets the sky in a ring of magic stillness.” Gorgeous, no?
Still, I wish Conrad had plonked this narrative – so unworthy of him – full fathom five – into such a sea, lacking murmur or regret.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
Joseph Conrad has long been one of my favorite authors. His works can be hard to know, with all the shades of meanings and the intricate plots, but Conrad’s novels have permanently been worth the effort. Victory was one of the more readable works; and one of the most spell-binding. A fantastic tale by a fantastic leader: I’m very glad I read this!
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5