Lord Jim
by Conrad, Joseph
Published by : Franklin Watts, Inc. (New York) Physical details: 417 p| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Text of Lord Jim --
Backgrounds --
Sources --
Essays in criticism --
Two early reviews / New York Tribune ; Spectator --
The genius of Mr. Joseph Conrad / Hugh Clifford --
Lord Jim / Gustav Morf --
[Art vs. didacticism in Lord Jim] / Edward Crankshaw --
On Lord Jim / Dorothy Van Ghent --
Lord Jim / Albert J. Guerard --
Lord Jim : from sketch to novel / Eloise Knapp Hay --
The varieties of extremity : Lord Jim / Murray Krieger --
Butterflies and beetles : Conrad's two truths / Tony Tanner --
Conrad's "Karain" and Lord Jim / Bruce M. Johnson --
Symbolic imagery in Lord Jim / Donald C. Yelton.
Jim, a young British seaman, becomes first mate on the Patna, a ship full of pilgrims travelling to Mecca for the hajj. When the ship starts rapidly taking on water and disaster seems imminent, Jim joins his captain and other crew members in abandoning the ship and its passengers. A few days later, they are picked up by a British ship. However, the Patna and its passengers are later also saved, and the reprehensible actions of the crew are exposed. The other participants evade the judicial court of inquiry, leaving Jim to the court alone. He is publicly censured for this action and the novel follows his later attempts at coming to terms with his past. The novel is counted as one of 100 best books of the 20th century.
Joseph Conrad (1857-1924), was a Polish author who wrote in English after settling in England. Conrad is regarded as one of the greatest novelists in English, though he did not speak the language fluently until he was in his twenties. He wrote stories and novels, often with a nautical setting, that depict trials of the human spirit in the midst of an indifferent world. He was a master prose stylist who brought a distinctly non-English tragic sensibility into English literature.
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