Lord Jim
Subtitle: a tale
By: Joseph Conrad ; edited with an introduction and notes by Jacques Berthoud.
Contributors: Berthoud, Jacques A.
Edition: New ed.
Series: Oxford world's classics; Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 340
Subjects: Merchant marine -- Officers -- Fiction; British -- Indonesia -- Fiction; Atonement -- Fiction; Cowardice -- Fiction; Indonesia -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [xxxv]-xxxviii).