num_pages: 400
description: This compact novel, completed in 1900, as with so many of the great novels of the time, is at its baseline a book of the sea. An English boy in a simple town has dreams bigger than the outdoors and embarks at an early age into the sailor's life. The waters he travels reward him with the ability to explore the human spirit, while Joseph Conrad launches the story into both an exercise of his technical prowess and a delicately crafted picture of a character who reaches the status of a literary hero.
language: English
title: Lord Jim
titlecomplete: Lord Jim
characters: Charles Marlow, Jim
genres: Fiction, 20th Century, Classics, English Literature, British Literature, Classic Literature, Historical Fiction, Literature, Adventure, Novels
ratings_count: 30485
places: Malaysia
publisher: Penguin Books