Book Description
Lord Jim confronts the problem of lost honor. As a young sailor, Jim betrayed his mates by jumping clear of their sinking ship. Years later, he is tormented by his acts of cowardice. Told by a variety of voices--Primarily Marlow, Conrad's narrator from Heart of Darkness--Jim's story reonates with heroism, weakness, guilt, and redemption.
Lord Jim (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) FROM OUR EDITORS
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FROM THE PUBLISHER
With Lord Jim, first published in 1900, Joseph Conrad
transformed a tale of seafaring adventure into a subtle study of the
meaning of honor and courage, loyalty and betrayal. When Jim, an
idealistic merchant seaman and ship’s officer, abandons the
supposedly sinking Patna and its passengers, he dashes his
youthful dreams of glory in a single stroke. Condemned in court for his
impetuous act of cowardice, Jim relegates himself to a life roaming the
Far East.
Unforgettably told by Marlow, who also narrates Conrad’s Heart
of Darkness, the story of Lord Jim plumbs the mysteries of a
man renounced by society but driven by a desire for redemption.
A. Michael Matin is a professor in the English Department of
Warren Wilson College in Asheville, North Carolina. He has published
articles on various twentieth-century British and postcolonial writers,
and has written the introduction and notes for the Barnes & Noble
Classics edition of Heart of Darkness and Selected Short Fiction
by Joseph Conrad.
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