num_pages: 332
description: In his prefactory note to this novel, Conrad said, "When this novel first appeared in book form a notion got about that I had been bolted away with. Some reviewers maintained that the work starting as a short story had got beyond the writer's control. One or two discovered internal evidence of the fact, which seemed to amuse them. They pointed out the limitations of the narrative form. They argued that no man could have been expected to talk all that time, and other men to listen so long. It was not, they said, very credible. . . . After thinking it over for something like sixteen years, I am not so sure about that. Men have been known, both in the tropics and in the temperate zone, to sit up half the night 'swapping yarns.' This, however, is but one yarn, yet with interruptions affording some measure of relief. . . ."
language: English
title: Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad, Fiction, Classics
titlecomplete: Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad, Fiction, Classics
characters: Jim, Charles Marlow
genres: 20th Century, Literature, Classics, Novels, Adventure, Classic Literature, English Literature, Historical Fiction, Fiction, British Literature
ratings_count: 30488
places: Malaysia
publisher: Wildside Pr