Lord Jim
Publisher: Doubleday, Page
Published: 1923
Place of publication: Garden City, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 417
Subjects: Merchant marine; Officers; Fiction; British; Atonement; Cowardice
Description: Lord Jim tells the story of a young, idealistic Englishman who is disgraced by a single act of cowardice while serving as an officer on the Patna, a merchant-ship sailing from an eastern port. His life is blighted; an isolated scandal assumes horrifying proportions. An older man, Marlow, befriends Jim, and helps to establish him in Patusan, a remote Malay settlement. There he achieves a kind of peace, but his courage is put to the test once more.