Lord Jim | Social Concerns
According to some critics, Lord Jim is the first major novel of Joseph Conrad's mature period as a fiction writer, and the work touches on several of the social concerns of his masterpieces such as Nostromo (1904; see separate entry), although the concerns of Lord Jim do not become overtly political as in Nostromo, The Secret Agent (1907; see separate entry), and Under Western Eyes (1911). Jim's impulsive act of cowardice or self-preservation in abandoning his ship the Patna with his cowardly fellow officers is placed at the center of the...
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