Victory An Island Tale

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". Axel Heyst, the novel''s protagonist, was raised by his widowed father, a Swedish philosopher, in London, England, and never knew his mother. The atmosphere of Heyst''s home, with his father''s ruthless pursuit of truth and pessimis...