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Victory

An Island Tale

Joseph Conrad Peter Mallios

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English
Modern Library Inc
15 August 2003
An Island Tale

Set in the islands of the Malay Archipelago, Victory tells the story of a disillusioned Swede, Axel Heyst, who rescues Lena, a young English musician, from the clutches of a brutish German hotel owner. Seeking refuge at Heyst's remote island retreat on Samburan, the couple is soon besieged by three villains dispatched by the enraged hotelier. The arrival on the island paradise of this trio of fiends sets off a terrifying series of events that ultimately ends in catastrophe.

""With Victory, Conrad inaugurated a new style and aesthetic,"" writes Peter Lancelot Mallios in his Introduction. ""The tremendous literary sophistication to be found in Victory does not result in the exclusion of the popular reader.""

The text of this Modern Library Paperback Classic was set from the first British edition, published by Methuen & Co. in 1915.
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Introduction by:  
Imprint:   Modern Library Inc
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 201mm,  Width: 133mm,  Spine: 24mm
Weight:   321g
ISBN:   9780375759086
ISBN 10:   0375759085
Series:   Modern Library Classics
Pages:   432
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Peter Lancelot Mallios is an assistant professor of English and American Studies at the University of Maryland.

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“I am glad that I am alive, if, for no other reason, because of the joy of reading this book.” —Jack London


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