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Victory

by Joseph Conrad

A reclusive man rescues a mistreated young woman, but their romantic life on a remote island is soon disturbed.

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First published
1915
Length
118,344 words
Reading time
About 8 hr 14 min
Language
English (UK)

About the book

Joseph Conrad’s Victory tells the story of Axel Heyst, a reclusive Swedish man who lives a solitary life on the island of Samburan in Southeast Asia. During a stay at a hotel on the nearby island of Java, Heyst encounters Lena, a young musician traveling with an orchestra. Witnessing Lena’s mistreatment by the orchestra’s conductor and his wife, as well as the sexual threats by the hotel’s owner, Schomberg, Heyst decides to help Lena escape the orchestra and brings her to his island, where they fall in love. But Schomberg, filled with jealousy and rage, takes his revenge by sending three bandits to the island, promising them the fortune Heyst supposedly hid there.

First published in 1915, Victory has a four-part structure, switching between different narrative perspectives to tell the stories of Heyst, Schomberg, and Lena.

First published 1915; the Read4Max reading text contains approximately 118,344 words arranged in 48 navigable sections.

About the author

Joseph Conrad

Joseph Conrad (1857–1924) is described by Wikidata as Polish-British writer (1857–1924), with citizenship or national association recorded as Russian Empire, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, United Kingdom, and Second Polish Republic.

Recorded occupations include writer, novelist, essayist, screenwriter, science fiction writer, and autobiographer. Languages recorded for Joseph Conrad include English and Polish. The structured record associates Joseph Conrad with modernist literature. Wikidata lists The Lagoon, The Nigger of the 'Narcissus', Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, Amy Foster, and Typhoon among Joseph Conrad's notable works. Open Library identifies Heart of Darkness as a leading work in its author record. Open Library catalogs 5571 works under this author record. The Read4Max catalog currently includes A Personal Record, Almayer’s Folly, An Outcast of the Islands, Chance, Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, and Nostromo under Joseph Conrad's authorship.

1857–1924

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Themes and ideas

  • Revenge
  • Psychological fiction
  • Indonesia
  • Europeans
  • Women musicians
  • Abused women

Table of contents

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  1. Dedication
  2. Note to the First Edition
  3. Author’s Note
  4. Epigraph
  5. Victory
  6. Part I
  7. I
  8. II
  9. III
  10. IV
  11. V
  12. VI
  13. VII
  14. Part II
  15. I
  16. II
  17. III
  18. IV
  19. V
  20. VI
  21. VII
  22. VIII
  23. Part III
  24. I
  25. II
  26. III
  27. IV
  28. V
  29. VI
  30. VII
  31. VIII
  32. IX
  33. X
  34. Part IV
  35. I
  36. II
  37. III
  38. IV
  39. V
  40. VI
  41. VII
  42. VIII
  43. IX
  44. X
  45. XI
  46. XII
  47. XIII
  48. XIV
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