Joseph Conrad

Victory

An Island Tale

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Produktbeschreibung

Victory (also published as Victory: An Island Tale) is a psychological novel by Joseph Conrad first published in 1915,through which Conrad achieved ""popular success The novel's ""most striking formal characteristic is its shifting narrative and temporal perspectivewith 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: True Sign Publishing House
• Seitenzahl: 314
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Februar 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 445g
• ISBN-13: 9789355843661
• ISBN-10: 9355843666
• Artikelnr.: 67629613

Autorenporträt

Joseph Conrad was a Polish-born English novelist, considered as one of the prominent novelists to write in the English language. He was born on 3 December 1857. Though he did not speak English fluently until his twenties, he came to be considered a master prose stylist who guide a non-English sensibility into English literature. He was assigned British nationality in 1886 but always regarded himself a Pole. He enrolled the French Merchant Marine and began to work on British ships, learning English from his shipmates. He was made a master mariner and worked more than sixteen years before an event motivated him to try his hand at writing. He wrote stories and novels, many with a nautical setting, that represents trials of the human spirit in the middle of an unexpressive, transparent universe. During his lifetime Conrad was praised for the assets of his prose and his offerings of dangerous life at sea and in foreign places. His works include the novels Almayer's Folly (1895), Lord Jim (1900), Nostromo (1904), and The Secret Agent (1907) and the short story 'Heart of Darkness ' (1902). He died in August 1924.

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