HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Who could tell what forms, what visions, what faces, what forgiveness he could see in the glow of the west!' Jim is a well-bred young romantic who takes to the seas with hopes of adventure and the aspiration to prove[...]
This revised "Critical Edition" represents a complete recasting of the 1968 edition; the first English edition (Blackwood's Magazine, 1900) is now the copy-text. The novel is accompanied by expanded annotations, textual notes and a "Lord Jim" gazeteer and glossary of eastern and nautical terms. Othe[...]
When "Lord Jim" first appeared in 1900, many took Joseph Conrad to task for couching an entire novel in the form of an extended conversation - a ripping good yarn, if you like (one critic in The Academy complained that the narrator 'was telling that after-dinner story to his companions for eleven so[...]
This is the "Penguin English Library Edition" of "Lord Jim" by Joseph Conrad. 'A murmur of dismay and horror ran through the crowd at the sight of that familiar token. The old nakhoda stared at it, and suddenly let out one great fierce cry, deep from the chest, a roar of pain and fury, as mighty as [...]
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 e[...]
Lord Jim is a book about courage and cowardice, self-knowledge and personal growth, in the exotic setting of post-colonial Patusan, a remote Malay settlement. This new edition uses the first English edition text and includes a new introduction and notes by leading Conrad scholar Jacques Berthoud, g[...]
A bold young English sailor has despised himself ever since an impulsive moment of cowardice. Jim moves East to Patusan, where natives worship him-and he may be able to find redemption...
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A young Englishman branded as a coward seeks personal redemption for an act of selfishness
First published in 1900, Lord Jim established Conrad as one of the great storytellers of the twentieth century. Set in the Malay Archipelago, the novel not only provides a gripping account of maritime adventure and romance, but also an exotic tale of the East. Its themes also challenge the conventio[...]
This is a classic story of one man's tragic failure and eventual redemption, told under the circumstances of high adventure at the margins of the known world.[...]
Joseph Conrads Lord Jim er et hovedværk i det 20. århundredes litteratur og indtager en naturlig plads i Rosinantes lovpriste klassikerserie.
Jim er overbevist om, at han er født under en lykkestjerne, der vil sikre ham mod tilværelsens anslag. Det skib, han er styrmand på, støder p�[...]
Classic Collections: Joseph Conrad; Lord Jim, Heart of Darkness, Nostromo, & The Secret Agent - is the perfect introduction to the writings of Joseph Conrad.[...]
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