Victory (Oxford Worlds Classics) by Joseph Conrad - A page-turner, possibly Conrad's only

Victory was the last of Conrads novels to be set in the Malay Archipelago. It tells the story of Axel Heyst who, damaged by his dead fathers nihilistic philosophy, has retreated from the world of commerce and colonial exploration to live alone on the island of Samburan. But Heysts solitary existence ends when he rescues an English girl from her rapacious patron and brings her back to the island. She in turn recalls him to love and life, until the world breaks in on them once more with tragic consequences. In this love story Conrad created two of his psychologically most complex and compelling characters in a narrative of great erotic power.
This new edition uses the first edition text and includes a new chronology and bibliography.

A page-turner, possibly Conrad's only
This is a good one. Of Conrad's novels, only the equally fascinating (albeit tougher going) Chance is more maligned. But Victory, which is not a great deal less audacious than the earlier proto-modernist illuminations of Nostromo and Lord Jim, is also Conrad's leanest, most titillating and romantic fiction, an extrapolation and mythic abstraction of the latter half of Lord Jim. The broad strokes of the abstraction conceal a considerable blackening of Conrad's heart since the early masterpieces: there are shades of The Waste Land in this Paradise. This is, after all, the only Conrad novel in which anyone has sex - and yet it is also the Conrad novel with the bleakest ending.

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