Victory: Introduction by Tony Tanner (Everyman's Library

Victory: Introduction by Tony Tanner (Everyman's Library Classics Series)

Joseph Conrad possessed a matchless gift for embodying life as it is lived under extreme physical and psychological pressure. Victory, his last masterpiece, tells the story of Axel Heyst, a radically isolated, philosophically minded soul living apart on a remote Pacific island, who performs two acts of instinctive kindness and thereby embroils himself in storms of greed and vengeance, and of love and mercy.
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When Heyst impulsively rescues a young English musician, Lena, from the predations of a lascivious hotel owner named Schomberg, he cannot know that she will be the means of releasing him from the emotional detachment with which he has long barricaded himself. Their affair does not last long, however, once the enraged Schomberg sends agents of revenge to invade Heystâ€™s island retreat. Out of the maelstrom of violence and tragedy that ensues, Conrad produces a profound, unflinching meditation on human connection and redemption.
Country USA
Brand Everyman's Library
Manufacturer Everyman's Library
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber part_0375400478
Model part_0375400478
Color Multicolor
ReleaseDate 1998-10-20
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780375400476

Victory: Introduction by Tony Tanner (Everyman's Library Classics Series)