Lord Jim (Magill Book Reviews)
At a glance:
- Author: Joseph Conrad
- First Published: 1900
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction
- Subjects: Nineteenth century, Betrayal, Trials, Violence, Islands, Rulers, Idealism, Sea or seafaring life, Naivete, Pacific Ocean, Honor
- Locales: Islands, Oceans, Southeast Asia
Conrad introduces Jim as an able-bodied seaman with romantic ideas about his own courage. Those ideas change drastically, though, when a crisis strikes the Patna, a decaying steamer aboard which Jim serves as chief mate; the rest of the novel explores the complexity of Jim’s character as he struggles to form a new conception of himself.
The steamer strikes a submerged object one night at sea and begins to go down, carrying a load of passengers. The unscrupulous captain and his drunken crew abandon the vessel immediately, and though Jim remains behind for a long while, he...
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