Victory by Joseph Conrad
This is a story of a man's attempt to detach himself from the central current of life. He becomes involved in the operation of a coal company on a remote island in the Malay archipelago. When that fails he turns his back on humanity until, once again, he is drawn into contact with the world.-
The End of the Affair
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Brideshead Revisited
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Nausea
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Steppenwolf
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Invisible Man
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Maurice
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The Road to Wigan Pier
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A Streetcar Named Desire
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The Power and the Glory
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A Room with a View
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Ulysses
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Homage to Catalonia
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A Passage to India
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Wide Sargasso Sea
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Good Morning, Midnight
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Collected Short Stories
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Memoirs of Hadrian
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Keep the Aspidistra Flying
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Voyage in the Dark
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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
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At Swim-two-birds
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Lolita
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Coming Up for Air
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Dubliners
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Down and Out in Paris and London
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Death in Venice
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The Sword of Honour
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The Death of the Heart
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The Good Soldier Svejk and His Fortunes in the World War
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Metamorphosis
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The Age of Reason
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Story of the Eye
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The Age of Innocence
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The Blood of Others
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Hangover Square
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The Last September
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The Go-between
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Scoop
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Animal Farm
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Goodbye to All That
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Finnegans Wake
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The Magic Mountain
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A Very Easy Death
Joseph Conrad, christened Josef Teodor Konrad, Nalecz Korzeniowski, was born on December 3, 1857, in a part of Russia that had once belonged to Poland. His parents were members of the landed gentry, but as ardent Polish patriots, the suffered considerably for their political views. Orphaned at eleven, Conrad attended school for a few years in Cracow, He soon concluded, however, that there was no future for a Pole in occupied Poland, and at sixteen he left his ancestral home forever. The sea was Conrad's love and career for the next twenty years. In the French merchant marine, he sailed to the West. Indies, smuggled guns to Spanish rebels, ran into debt, and bungled a suicide attempt Then in the British merchant navy, he rose to first mate and finally to captain, sailing to Australia and Borneo and surviving at least one shipwreck. In 1890 he contracted to become captain of a Congo River steamer, but the six months he spent in Africa led only to disillusionment and ill health; this episode would become the basis for Conrad's masterpiece, Heart of Darkness. Reluctantly leaving the merchant service, he settled in England and completed his first novel, Almayer's Folly, already begun at sea. Hi subsequent works, many of which drew upon his sea experiences, include The Nigger of the Narcissus (1897), Lord Jim (1900), Heart of Darkness (1902), Youth (1902) Typhoon (1903), Nastromo (1904), The Secret Agent (1907), The Secret Sharer (1910), Under the Western Eyes (1911), and Chance (1913). The man who was twenty-one years old before he spoke a word of English is now regarded as one of the superb English stylists of all time. Conrad died almost literally on his desk in 1924, at the age of sixty-six.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780140183597 |
| ISBN 10 | 0140183590 |
| Title | Victory |
| Author | Joseph Conrad |
| Series | Twentieth Century Classics S |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Year published | 1989-05-25 |
| Number of pages | 416 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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