Joseph Conrad
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| Title | : | Lord Jim |
| Author | : | Joseph Conrad |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 455 pages |
| Published | : | November 7th 2000 by Broadview Press Inc (first published January 1st 1900) |
| Categories | : | Classics. Fiction. Literature |
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Jim, a young British seaman, becomes first mate on the Patna, a ship full of pilgrims travelling to Mecca for the hajj. When the ship starts rapidly taking on water and disaster seems imminent, Jim joins his captain and other crew members in abandoning the ship and its passengers. A few days later, they are picked up by a British ship. However, the Patna and its passengers are later also saved, and the reprehensible actions of the crew are exposed. The other participants evade the judicial court of inquiry, leaving Jim to the court alone. He is publicly censured for this action and the novel follows his later attempts at coming to terms with his past. The novel is counted as one of 100 best books of the 20th century.Joseph Conrad (1857-1924), was a Polish author who wrote in English after settling in England. Conrad is regarded as one of the greatest novelists in English, though he did not speak the language fluently until he was in his twenties. He wrote stories and novels, often with a nautical setting, that depict trials of the human spirit in the midst of an indifferent world. He was a master prose stylist who brought a distinctly non-English tragic sensibility into English literature.
Contents:
Lord Jim
Memoirs & Letters:
A Personal Record; or Some Reminiscences
The Mirror of the Sea
Notes on Life & Letters
Biography & Critical Essays:
Joseph Conrad (A Biography) by Hugh Walpole
Joseph Conrad by John Albert Macy
A Conrad Miscellany by John Albert Macy
Joseph Conrad by Virginia Woolf
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| Original Title: | Lord Jim |
| ISBN: | 1551111721 (ISBN13: 9781551111728) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Charles Marlow, Jim |
| Setting: | Malaysia |
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Ratings: 3.62 From 26467 Users | 1240 ReviewsAssess Of Books Lord Jim
Loved this book. Here's a great statement!"'And because you not always can keep your eyes shut there comes the real trouble -- the heart pain -- the world pain. I tell you, my friend, it is not good for you to find you cannot make your dream come true, for the reason that you not strong enough are, or not clever enough. Ja! ... And all the time you are such a fine fellow too! Wie? Was? Gott im Himme! How can that be? Ha! ha! ha!'" Stein, (from Joseph Conrad's, "LORD JIM")The outlook is bleak. Conrad's last book of the nineteenth century offers the certainty that we can never be good enough, if you are lucky disillusionment will result, if less lucky disaster, and your own death will be a mercy. Ideals, civilisation and values, even love, none have a chance in the face of our universal insufficiencies, however before we start getting too pessimistic the novel itself is an exercise in optimism - at least - Conrad demonstrates, we can talk about these things, even
It is when we try to grapple with another man's intimate need that we perceive how incomprehensible, wavering and misty are the beings that share with us the sight of the stars and the warmth of the sun. It is as if loneliness were a hard and absolute condition of existence; the envelope of flesh and blood on which our eyes are fixed melts before the outstretched hand, and there remains only the capricious, unconsolable and elusive spirit that no eye can follow, no hand can grasp.
Finally, an answer to my question "what novel contains the phrase a sinister pantaloon?"Objectively speaking, I didn't enjoy this read. But also speaking objectively, I appreciate the way this book sits on the cusp of the transition from 19th-century adventure writing to 20th century modernism. An omniscient narrator tells the story of first mate Jim abandoning his ship full of Muslim pilgrims. Then Conrad inserts his favorite narrator Marlow, who picks up the story of the rest of Jim's life,
I was looking over my old books when I came across this paperback version of Lord Jim, which I purchased in 1966 while a freshman in high school.Why in the world did a 14 year-old-girl purchase, as one of her first book buys ever, Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad?Because as a girl she had loved the Classics Illustrated Comic book story of Lord Jim.The old paperback's red cover reflects the high emotion of the scene depicted in the illustration: the lone light of the ship before the crew loses sight of
785. Lord Jim, Joseph ConradLord Jim is a novel by Joseph Conrad originally published as a serial in Blackwood's Magazine from October 1899 to November 1900. An early and primary event in the story is the abandonment of a passenger ship in distress by its crew, including a young British seaman named Jim. He is publicly censured for this action and the novel follows his later attempts at coming to terms with himself and his past.تاریخ نخستین خوانش: سوم ماه نوامبر سال 1997 میلادیعنوان: لرد جیم
I dont know if there has ever been an out and out study of Conrads influence on T.S. Eliot, but I couldnt help but feel, while reading Lord Jim that the influence goes beyond the footnote. The most famous is of course Eliots epigram from Heart of Darkness (Mistah Kurtz -- he dead.). (Lesser known is another Heart of Darkness epigram before Pound waved it off that got things rolling in The Wasteland.) However, buried deeper in the Hollow Men are the lines Between the idea / And the Reality/
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