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"Victory" was first conceived by Conrad in 1915 as a short story to be called "The Dollars". But like many of his planned fictions it expanded as soon as he started writing, and went on to become one of his longest novels. The original manuscript was much longer than the final work, which was first published in serial form in Munsey’s Magazine, New York.
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.
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.
A central theme of "Victory" is the tragic nature of Axel Heyst's philosophical detachment from human life, and Conrad's own vision of the need for some kind of involvement in the human community. Although Conrad was in many ways a skeptic about human ideals, like Axel Heyst's father, the philosopher who published a number of books expressing a philosophy similar to Schopenhauer's intellectual pessimism, Conrad the artist and thinker recognized the importance of involvement and commitment to the human community. Hence the novel may be viewed from one perspective as the tragic consequence of Heyst's inadequate involvement with humanity.
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Rating★★★★ 4.0 (6.7K)
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GenreRomance, Literary Classics, General Fiction
Length13 hrs 7 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 23, 2019
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Note To The First Edition
24Chapter Four
2Author's Note
25Chapter Five
3PART ONE
26Chapter Six
4Chapter One
27Chapter Seven
5Chapter Two
28Chapter Eight
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6Chapter Three
29Chapter Nine
7Chapter Four
30Chapter Ten
8Chapter Five
31PART FOUR
9Chapter Six
32Chapter One
10Chapter Seven
33Chapter Two
11PART TWO
34Chapter Three
12Chapter One
35Chapter Four
13Chapter Two
36Chapter Five
14Chapter Three
37Chapter Six
15Chapter Four
38Chapter Seven
16Chapter Five
39Chapter Eight
17Chapter Six
40Chapter Nine
18Chapter Seven
41Chapter Ten
19Chapter Eight
42Chapter Eleven
20PART THREE
43Chapter Twelve
21Chapter One
44Chapter Thirteen
22Chapter Two
45Chapter Fourteen
23Chapter Three
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