Victory: An Island Tale: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Victory: An Island Tale, credited to Joseph Conrad, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Victory: An Island Tale, by Joseph Conrad. Read by skoval. Recollections of the life of Axel Heyst, one-time manager of the liquidated Tropical Belt Coal Company in a fictitious island in the Pacific. After retreating from society in response to his professional failures, the misanthrope is drawn back by a romantic affair. (Introduction by S. Kovalchik)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Victory: An Island Tale
• Author credits: Joseph Conrad
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 41
• Listed recording duration: 13:51:22

Catalogue topics

• conrad, literature

Opening tracks: first 24 of 41

1. 00 - Note to the First Edition — 3:09
2. 01 - Author's Note — 19:18
3. 02 - Part 1, Chapter 1 — 13:59
4. 03 - Part 1, Chapter 2 — 23:19
5. 04 - Part 1, Chapter 3 — 14:10
6. 05 - Part 1, Chapter 4 — 13:36
7. 06 - Part 1, Chapter 5 — 32:23
8. 07 - Part 1, Chapter 6 — 11:10
9. 08 - Part 1, Chapter 7 — 10:10
10. 09 - Part 2, Chapter 1 — 24:14
11. 10 - Part 2, Chapter 2 — 29:51
12. 11 - Part 2, Chapter 3 — 13:51
13. 12 - Part 2, Chapter 4 — 13:06
14. 13 - Part 2, Chapter 5 — 26:44
15. 14 - Part 2, Chapter 6 — 32:49
16. 15 - Part 2, Chapter 7 — 36:03
17. 16 - Part 2, Chapter 8 — 32:04
18. 17 - Part 3, Chapter 1 — 20:17
19. 18 - Part 3, Chapter 2 — 5:54
20. 19 - Part 3, Chapter 3 — 32:31
21. 20 - Part 3, Chapter 4 — 31:35
22. 21 - Part 3, Chapter 5 — 17:21
23. 22 - Part 3, Chapter 6 — 17:12
24. 23 - Part 3, Chapter 7 — 22:49

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