Lord Jim

author: Conrad, Joseph

With gorgeous new packaging, a new introduction, and an updated bibliography, this reissue celebrates the classic novel that set the style for a whole new class of literature: novels of an outcast from civilization finding refuge in the tropics. This is a story of dramatic action and psychological penetration, a work that critic Morton Danwen Zabel calls an example of Conrad's "central theme ... the grip of circumstances that enforce self-discovery and its cognate, the discovery of reality of truth.".

year: 1982, 2000, 1989, 1981, 1900, 1979, 1999, 1920, 1949, 1977, 1961, 1899, 1965, 1963

call number/section: 1000

subjects: seafaring life, indonesia, fiction, merchant marine, officers, british, atonement, indonesia, fiction, adventure and adventurers, adventure fiction, sea stories, malay archipelago, self-acceptance, cowardice, psychological fiction

Editions

Lord Jim
Conrad, Joseph
Viking Penguin Books (1982)

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Lord Jim
Conrad, Joseph
Signet Classic (2000)
With gorgeous new packaging, a new introduction, and an updated bibliography, this reissue celebrates the classic novel that set the style for a whole new class of literature: novels of an outcast from civilization finding refuge in the tropics. This is a story of dramatic action and psychological penetration, a work that critic Morton Danwen Zabel calls an example of Conrad's "central theme ... the grip of circumstances that enforce self-discovery and its cognate, the discovery of reality of truth.".
Schools: 0