ISBN: 9780140020601 - victory: an island tale (modern classics) (17 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: 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. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Zustand: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Paperback. Zustand: 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. Zustand: Fair. A readable copy of the book which may include some defects such as highlighting and notes. Cover and pages may be creased and show discolouration.

mass_market. Zustand: Acceptable. Please see the condition note after this for details, if this is missing please consider Acceptable to mean poor quality that could include major staining, water damage, writing, missing dustjacket, etc etc. Our books are dispatched from a Yorkshire former cotton mill. We list via barcode/ISBN so please note that the images are stock images and may not be the exact copy you receive, furthermore the details about edition and year might not be accurate as many publishers reuse the same ISBN for multiple editions and as we simply scan a barcode or enter an ISBN we do not check the validity of the edition data when listing. If you're looking for an exact edition please don't order (at least not without checking with us first, although we don't always have time to check). We aim to dispatch prompty, the service used will depend on order value and book size. We can ship to most countries, see our shipping policies. Payment is via Abe only.…

Zustand: Very Good. 1973. mass_market. Good to very good, showing light age and wear, remains a fine copy. . . . .

Zustand: Very Good. 1973. mass_market. Good to very good, showing light age and wear, remains a fine copy. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Paperback. Zustand: 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. Zustand: Very Good. paperback, 328pp, owner's name inside front cover, page edges browned, otherwise clean and tight, Very Good condition. ISBN: 0140020608.

Soft cover. Zustand: 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.).…

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

Paperback. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Not Applicable. 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. Zustand: Good. 328 pages. A firm book with the usual brown age toning, with written margin notes etc. Just a reading copy.

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

Couverture souple. Zustand: 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. Zustand: 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.