description: In 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. It is a story of action and high adventure coexisting with an exhaustive study of the psychology of a man who's philosophy of life is summed up in the dying words of his "Look on -- make no sound."
language: English
title: Victory: An Island Tale
titlecomplete: Victory: An Island Tale (Collected Works of Joseph Conrad)
characters: Martin Ricardo, Mr. Schomberg, Axel Heyst
genres: Fiction, Adventure, Asia, English Literature, British Literature, Literature, Classics, Novels, 20th Century, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 3823
publisher: Classic Books