Lord Jim
By: by Joseph Conrad; introduction by J. Donald Adams.
Series: The Modern library of the world's best books
Publisher: The Modern Library
Published: 1931
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 417
Subjects: Merchant marine -- Officers -- Fiction; British -- Indonesia -- Fiction; Cowardice -- Fiction; Atonement -- Fiction; Indonesia -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: With Lord Jim, first published in 1900, Joseph Conrad transformed a tale of seafaring adventure into a subtle study of the meaning of honor and courage, loyalty and betrayal. When Jim, an idealistic merchant seaman and ship's officer, abandons the supposedly sinking Patna and its passengers, he dashes his youthful dreams of glory in a single stroke. Condemned in court for his impetuous act of cowardice, Jim relegates himself to a life roaming the Far East. Unforgettably told by Marlow, who also narrates Conrad's Heart of Darkness, the story of Lord Jim plumbs the mysteries of a man renounced by society but driven by a desire for redemption.
Notes: "First Modern library edition."