"Victory: An Island Tale" by Joseph Conrad is a story set in the early 1900s about Axel Heyst, a mysterious man overseeing a failing coal mine on the remote island of Samburan after his company goes bankrupt. It grapples with isolation as Heyst lives a solitary life, detached from others and lost in his thoughts, only broken by memories of past interactions and philosophical reflections. As the story starts, Heyst remains distant, stuck between his dreams and a feeling of weariness, with hints that major events are on their way to disrupt his way of living.
Victory: An Island Tale
By Joseph Conrad
On a forgotten island, a lone man's isolated existence is threatened when the world finally crashes down upon his peaceful solitude.
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About the AuthorJoseph Conrad was a Polish-British novelist and story writer. He is regarded as one of the greatest writers in the English language and although he did not speak English fluently until his twenties, he became a master prose stylist who brought a non-English sensibility into English literature. He wrote novels and stories, many in nautical settings that depict crises of human individuality in the midst of what he saw as an indifferent, inscrutable and amoral world.
Joseph Conrad was a Polish-British novelist and story writer. He is regarded as one of the greatest writers in the English language and although he did not speak English fluently until his twenties, he became a master prose stylist who brought a non-English sensibility into English literature. He wrote novels and stories, many in nautical settings that depict crises of human individuality in the midst of what he saw as an indifferent, inscrutable and amoral world.
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