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"The world is a bad dog. It will bite you if you give it a chance, " maintains Axel Heyst, a Swedish drifter in the Pacific islands. Heyst's attempt to remain aloof from the rest of human… Meer...

"The world is a bad dog. It will bite you if you give it a chance, " maintains Axel Heyst, a Swedish drifter in the Pacific islands. Heyst's attempt to remain aloof from the rest of humanity is challenged by his compassion for Lena, a destitute orchestra girl. Defying Lena's abusive boss, the two flee to an isolated paradise. But the vengeful employer sets a trio of miscreants on the lovers' trail, leading Heyst's growing moral courage to a deadly reckoning. First published in 1915, Victory is Conrad's last great novel. Its central question, whether a man of moral sensitivity can function in a corrupt and derelict world, is treated with the author's fundamental pessimism and withfaith in the possibility of redemption. The tale abounds in elements characteristic of the great storyteller's later work: an exotic setting, richly and powerfully evoked; muscular prose; complex characterization; and a compelling examination of the human capacity for good and evil. Dover Publications Literature General literary fiction; british literature; 19th-century fiction; conrad novel; joseph conrad; an island tale; exotic settings; vengeful employer; swedish drifter; pacific islands; destitute orchestra girl; paradise; moral sensitivity; pessimism; faith; redemption; complex characters; human capacity for good and evil; love; romance; beauty; dramatic; complex; heartfelt,Psychological novel; 1915; Axel Heyst; Indonesia; Chinese assistant Wang; Mr. Schomberg; Alma; Lena; Pedro; Martin Ricardo; Mr. Jones; Maurice Tourneur; Jack Holt; Seena Owen; Lon Chaney, Sr.; Wallace Beery; William Wellman; Dangerous Paradise; Nancy Carroll; Richard Arlen; Warner Oland; John Cromwell; Fredric March; Betty Field; Sir Cedric Hardwicke; Mark Peploe; Willem Dafoe; Sam Neill; Ir?ne Jacob; Rufus Sewell; Harold Pinter; Polish-British; Almayer's Folly; An Outcast of the Islands; The Nigger of the 'Narcissus'; Heart of Darkness; Lord Jim; The Inheritors; Ford Madox Ford; Typhoon; The End of the Tether; Romance; Nostromo; The Secret Agent; Under Western Eyes; Chance; Victory; The Shadow Line; The Arrow of Gold; The Rescue; The Nature of a Crime; The Rover; Suspense: A Napoleonic Novel 9780486812502, BE,DE,FR,GB English Literature, Dover Publications<