The cover page is adapted from Victory, a painting completed in 1915 by An Unknown Artist. The cover and title pages feature the League Spartan and Sorts Mill Goudy typefaces created in 2014 and 2009 by The League of Moveable Type. www.theleagueofmoveabletype.com/
Victory
Chapters (43)
- Dedication 0:00
- Note to the First Edition 0:05
- Author’s Note 2:55
- Epigraph 21:37
- Part I: I 21:52
- II 34:14
- III 56:14
- IV 1:09:32
- V 1:22:40
- VI 1:54:19
- VII 2:04:38
- Part II: I 2:14:04
- II 2:37:07
- III 3:05:46
- IV 3:18:47
- V 3:31:20
- VI 3:56:15
- VII 4:27:59
- VIII 5:02:59
- Part III: I 5:34:14
- II 5:52:03
- III 5:57:07
- IV 6:28:06
- V 6:57:59
- VI 7:14:09
- VII 7:30:21
- VIII 7:52:30
- IX 8:00:43
- X 8:18:32
- Part IV: I 8:53:25
- II 9:10:05
- III 9:27:39
- IV 9:40:16
- V 9:55:22
- VI 10:28:56
- VII 10:40:05
- VIII 10:49:18
- IX 11:15:32
- X 11:38:26
- XI 11:52:52
- XII 12:27:46
- XIII 12:44:24
- XIV 12:53:16
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Joseph Conrad’s Victory tells the story of Axel Heyst, a reclusive Swedish man who lives a solitary life on the island of Samburan in Southeast Asia. During a stay at a hotel on the nearby island of Java, Heyst encounters Lena, a young musician traveling with an orchestra. Witnessing Lena’s mistreatment by the orchestra’s conductor and his wife, as well as the sexual threats by the hotel’s owner, Schomberg, Heyst decides to help Lena escape the orchestra and brings her to his island, where they fall in love. But Schomberg, filled with jealousy and rage, takes his revenge by sending three bandits to the island, promising them the fortune Heyst supposedly hid there.
First published in 1915, Victory has a four-part structure, switching between different narrative perspectives to tell the stories of Heyst, Schomberg, and Lena.