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Victory

Name: Victory
Author: Joseph Conrad

Joseph Conrad

Victory is a psychological novel by Joseph Conrad first published in 1915, through which Conrad achieved "popular success." The New York Times, however, called it "an uneven book" and "more open to criticism than most of Mr. Conrad's best work."The novel's "most striking formal characteristic is its shifting narrative and temporal perspective" with the first section from the viewpoint of a sailor, the second from omniscient perspective of Axel Heyst, the third from an interior perspective from Heyst, and the final section has an omniscient narrator.It has been adapted into film a number of times.

“Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love — and to put its trust in life!!”

Joseph Conrad book Victory

Victory: An Island Tale, part IV, Ch. 14

“He remembered that she was pretty, and, more, that she had a special grace in the intimacy of life. She had the secret of individuality which excites — and escapes.”

Joseph Conrad book Victory

Victory: An Island Tale, part III, Ch. 4

“Every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early and the human race come to an end.”

Joseph Conrad book Victory

Victory: An Island Tale (1915), part II, Ch. 3

“The world of finance is a mysterious world in which, incredible as the fact may appear, evaporation precedes liquidation.”

Joseph Conrad book Victory

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