Victory: An Island TaleIn Victory (1915) Conrad returns to the Malay Archipelago, to the setting of his first mature novel, Lord Jim, and in Axel Heyst he creates a hero who is in many ways similar to Jim, a noble altruist destroyed by his ideals. Heyst is emotionally crippled by the influence of his dead father, a sceptical philosopher who has bequeathed to Heyst an attitude to life summed up in the father's dying words: 'Look on - make no sound.' Despite this injunction Heyst allows himself to become inextricably involved with an English Cockney girl whom he rescues from Giancomo's Travelling Ladies' Orchestra and carries off to his isolated retreat on the island of Samburan. His action incurs the fatal wrath of Schomberg, the island's innkeeper, who sends in pursuit of Heyst three demonic strangers whose invasion of his island paradise leads rapidly to the novel's violent and tragic close. |
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Page xvi
All I am certain of in their personal relation to each other is that cruel pinch on the
upper part of the arm . That I am sure I have seen ! There could be no mistake . I
was in a too idle mood to imagine such a gratuitous barbarity . It may have been ...
All I am certain of in their personal relation to each other is that cruel pinch on the
upper part of the arm . That I am sure I have seen ! There could be no mistake . I
was in a too idle mood to imagine such a gratuitous barbarity . It may have been ...
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... outlying part of his enchanted circle that he was nearly forgotten before he
swam into view again in a native proa full of Goram vagabonds , burnt black by
the sun , very lean , his hair much thinned , and a portfolio of sketches under his
arm .
... outlying part of his enchanted circle that he was nearly forgotten before he
swam into view again in a native proa full of Goram vagabonds , burnt black by
the sun , very lean , his hair much thinned , and a portfolio of sketches under his
arm .
Page 53
He touched the stuff hanging over his arm . " An Indian thing , I believe , ” he
added , glancing at his arm sideways . " It isn't of particular value , " said
Davidson truthfully . " Very likely . The point is that it belongs to Schomberg's wife
.
He touched the stuff hanging over his arm . " An Indian thing , I believe , ” he
added , glancing at his arm sideways . " It isn't of particular value , " said
Davidson truthfully . " Very likely . The point is that it belongs to Schomberg's wife
.
Page 66
The small platform was filled with white muslin dresses and crimson sashes
slanting from shoulders provided with bare arms , which sawed away without
respite . Zangiacomo conducted . He wore a white mess - jacket , a black dress ...
The small platform was filled with white muslin dresses and crimson sashes
slanting from shoulders provided with bare arms , which sawed away without
respite . Zangiacomo conducted . He wore a white mess - jacket , a black dress ...
Page 67
... obviously weak in the audience , some of the musicians sat down listlessly at
unoccupied tables , while others went on perambulating the central passage arm
in arm , glad enough , no doubt , to stretch their legs while resting their arms .
... obviously weak in the audience , some of the musicians sat down listlessly at
unoccupied tables , while others went on perambulating the central passage arm
in arm , glad enough , no doubt , to stretch their legs while resting their arms .
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| Title | Victory: An Island Tale Armed Services ed Armed Services editions Volume 4883 of Collection of British authors. Tauchnitz Edition Methuen's colonial library Penguin modern classics The modern library of the world's best books The modern library |
| Author | Joseph Conrad |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | Methuen, 1915 |
| Original from | University of Chicago |
| Digitized | 13 Aug 2015 |
| Length | 415 pages |
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