Cover of Lord Jim

Lord Jim

by Unknown Author

3.8
(14 ratings)
384 pages1986Penguin ClassicsISBN 9780140431698
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
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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
Penguin Classics
Published
1986
Pages
384
ISBN
9780140431698

About Unknown Author

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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