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3.8
(14 ratings)466 pages1981HarperCollins Publishers Limited
FictionBritishOfficersMerchant marineAtonementCowardiceFiction in EnglishTravelIndonesiaSeafaring lifeConrad, Joseph, 1857-1924. Lord JimEnglish Psychological fictionEnglish Adventure storiesIn literatureLiteratureClassic LiteratureNOVELAS INGLESASLITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, WelshBiographyCriticism and interpretation
About this book
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.
Publication Details
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers Limited
- Published
- 1981
- Pages
- 466
- Language
- en
About Joseph Conrad
Joseph Conrad was a Polish-born British novelist, who became a British subject in 1886. He is regarded as one of the greatest novelists in English though he did not speak the language fluently until he was in his twenties (and then always with a marked Polish accent). He wrote stories and novels, predominantly with a nautical or seaboard setting, that depict trials of the human spirit by the demands of duty and honor. ([Source][1].) [1]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Conrad
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