CONRAD, Joseph.

Victory: An Island Tale.

London: Methuen and Co , 1915.

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"Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love — and to put its trust in life!!“: First Edition, First Issue of Conrad's Victory: An Island Tale

First English edition, first issue, of Conrad’s last major novel, a story of ill-fated romance set against the backdrop of European colonialism that “stands supreme among Conrad’s late works for its technical and thematic complexity and its acute psychological insight” (Mara Kalnins). In fine condition. Housed in a custom half morocco and chemise box. Uncommon in this condition.

Of this novel, Conrad wrote, "Victory… has come out of my innermost self." "Victory is Conradian to the core: its acknowledgment of the possibility for human goodness but its acknowledgment as well of the evil, the heart of darkness, that so often thwarts innocence and kindness; its exotic setting, richly and powerfully evoked; its muscular prose… still modern and immediate; its complex, fully drawn characters, real men and women rather than ideas or themes masquerading as people; its evocation of the sea and those who sail it; its mixture of fatalism and hope" (Jonathan Yardley).