Victory: An Island Tale

Description

Victory: An Island Tale is a psychological novel by Joseph Conrad first published in 1915. Axel Heyst, raised in London by his strict and pessimistic father, becomes a wanderer after his father's death, his mind warped by his upbringing. He ends up in Southeast Asia where his humanity is awoken by the plight of a man called Captain Morrison - Heyst helps Morrison out and the pair end up founding a business. After Morrison's death and the company's bankruptcy, he lives as a hermit on the island of Samburan with his Chinese servant, Wang. After encountering Lena, a young woman who plays in an orchestra in a hotel, his compassion is once again stirred as he learns that she is being mistreated by her orchestra's conductor and threatened with sexual violence by Schomberg, the owner of the hotel. Heyst takes Lena away with him, but finds himself being hunted by 3 mysterious men, after Schomberg, fueled by jealousy and fear, accuses Heyst of causing Morrison's death and hiding wealth on the island.

This book has 118,514 words, 219 pages in the PDF version, and was originally published in 1915.

Production notes: This ebook of Victory: An Island Tale was published by Global Grey in 2018, and updated on the 14th June 2023. The artwork used for the cover is 'Waterfall in the river Metro at Malang' by Maurits E.H.R. van den Kerkhoff.