9780140020601 - Victory: An Island Tale (Modern Classics) de Conrad, Joseph (12 resultados)

Condición: Good. Good condition. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Unknown. Condición: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Unknown. Condición: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback. Condición: Good. Victory ? Joseph Conrad (Penguin Modern Classics, 1973) ISBN: 0140020608 ? Condition: Good ? Sold by Crappy Old Books Welcome to the tropics, where the sunsets are operatic, the mosquitoes are Napoleonic, and loneliness wears a linen suit. Victory introduces Axel Heyst , a courteous Scandinavian who solved the problem of other people by opting out. He manages a polite relationship with a volcano, a moth-eaten coal company, and the philosophy that detachment is almost a hobby. Then he does the un-Scandinavian thing: he meets Lena ?a traveling show?s ?lady violinist? in distress?and performs a rescue. This is the trouble with good deeds: suddenly you?re not an island, you?re an island with visitors. Enter the visitors. Schomberg , a hotelier who gossips like a broken accordion, spreads a tale that Heyst sits on pirate treasure. The rumor summons a three-man morality play: Mr. Jones (a cadaverous gentleman who treats murder like bridge), Ricardo (his ferretish enthusiast), and Pedro (the silent punctuation mark at the end of a sentence you don?t want to finish). They descend on Samburan , Heyst?s private Eden-with-termite-problems, to liberate a fortune that does not exist. What they find is worse: two people trying to build a small republic of kindness amid the steam and mildew. Conrad threads irony like a garrote. The book is called Victory , but the prizes are mostly interior: the moment when a recluse chooses a person over a principle; the way courage borrows the voice of someone who has been underestimated all her life. Heyst thinks you can out-think involvement; Lena knows you can?t; the villains prefer you don?t think at all. Watch how the siege tightens: talk curdles into menace; politeness becomes a weapon; the jungle hums as if it were on the payroll. Expect: A gentleman devil in immaculate whites, because evil likes a crease. A romance built from shyness, tea, and mutually agreed privacy. A hotel lobby that manufactures lies at scale. An island that proves neutrality is not a survival strategy. An ending that earns the title the way a scar earns a story. This 1973 Penguin Modern Classics edition arrives in that cool grey livery that makes tragedy look scholarly. ? Condition: Good ,? translated from Crappy Old Books : a veteran paperback with an honest spine-crease, a whisper of tropical tan to the pages, and the structural integrity to survive both a deckchair and a commuter train. No volcano ash; possible faint aroma of philosophical resignation. Buy it for the gentleman villains and the jungle siege; keep it for Lena, who steals the novel by telling the truth softly. Crappy Old Books: purveyors of paperbacks slightly weathered by experience?like the best characters?and far more dependable than rumors of buried treasure.

Soft cover. Condición: Good. Reprint. Slight wear to cover.This is the story of a man's attempts to detach himself from the central current of life. Axel Heyst, the disenchanted Swede, becomes involved in the operation of a coal company on a remote island in the Malay Archipelago. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions etc.).

Condición: Très bon. J.L.G se sert de Zelliseller Evolution pour gérer ses Market Places.

Paperback. Condición: Good. Reprint. Small paperback, reprint, 210gms, 327 pages. Book is in good condition with mild general wear and tear and heavy page discolouration/spotting throughout, otherwise no other pre-loved markings.

Paperback. Condición: Good. 328 pages. A firm book with the usual brown age toning, with written margin notes etc. Just a reading copy.

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. 5th or later Edition. 1971 Penguin paperback reprint. Very good copy, with Kokoschka cover.

Couverture souple. Condición: bon. RO60143527: 1963. In-12. Broché. Etat passable, Coins frottés, Dos frotté, Papier jauni. 327 pages. Texte en anglais. Quelques rousseurs. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon.

Couverture souple. Condición: bon. R320126428: 1978. In-12. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Papier jauni. 327 pages - ouvrage en anglais. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon.