Victory: An Island Tale

Joseph Conrad

Independently Published, Sep 5, 2019 - 304 pages

Joseph Conrad (born J zef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, 3 December 1857 - 3 August 1924) was a Polish-British writer regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language Though he did not speak English fluently until his twenties, he was a master prose stylist who brought a non-English sensibility into English literature. A man estranged from his father seeks adventure in the far east? What price will he have to pay?

About the author

Joseph Conrad is recognized as one of the 20th century's greatest English language novelists. He was born Jozef Konrad Nalecz Korzeniowski on December 3, 1857, in the Polish Ukraine. His father, a writer and translator, was from Polish nobility, but political activity against Russian oppression led to his exile. Conrad was orphaned at a young age and subsequently raised by his uncle. At 17 he went to sea, an experience that shaped the bleak view of human nature which he expressed in his fiction. In such works as Lord Jim (1900), Youth (1902), and Nostromo (1904), Conrad depicts individuals thrust by circumstances beyond their control into moral and emotional dilemmas. His novel Heart of Darkness (1902), perhaps his best known and most influential work, narrates a literal journey to the center of the African jungle. This novel inspired the acclaimed motion picture Apocalypse Now. After the publication of his first novel, Almayer's Folly (1895), Conrad gave up the sea. He produced thirteen novels, two volumes of memoirs, and twenty-eight short stories. He died on August 3, 1924, in England.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Victory: An Island Tale
• Author: Joseph Conrad
• Publisher: Independently Published, 2019
• ISBN: 1691181986, 9781691181988
• Length: 304 pages