Lord Jim

Story of a British sailor tormented by a single youthful act of cowardly betrayal. To the white men of Bombay, Calcutta and Rangoon, Jim is a man of mystery. For the primitive natives deep in the Malay jungle, he is a god endowed with supernatural powers. For the beautiful mestizo girl who flees to her hut in search of protection, he is a lord who must be feared and loved.

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Joseph Conrad (1857-1924)Places

Dutch East Indies, IndonesiaTimes

19th centuryShowing 11 featured editions. See all 344 editions?

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Based on the 1959 Limited Editions Club printing.

"The frontispiece portrait was a special commission for this edition..."

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This compact novel, completed in 1900, like many of the great novels of the period, is essentially a book of the sea. An English boy from a simple town has dreams bigger than the outdoors and embarks on the life of a sailor at a very young age. The waters he navigates reward him with the ability to explore the human spirit, as Joseph Conrad launches the story in an exercise of his technical skill and in a delicately crafted image of a character who achieves the status of literary hero.