Lord Jim

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 30, 2023

In Category - Action & Adventure Fiction

Authors: Joseph Conrad In Year : 1900

Book Language: English

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Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapters 15-17
Chapters 18-19
Chapter 20
Chapters 21-22
Chapters 23-24
Chapters 25-26
Chapters 27-28
Chapters 29-30
Chapters 31-32
Chapters 33-34
Chapters 35-36
Chapters 37-38
Chapters 39-40
Chapters 41-42
Chapters 43-44
Chapter 45

A classic of early literary modernism, Lord Jim tells the story of a young "simple and sensitive character" who loses his honor in a display of cowardice at sea -- and of his expiation of that sin against his own "shadowy ideal of conduct" on the remote island of Patusan. The novel, written by Conrad for magazine serialization during an intense and chaotic ten months in 1899 and 1900, has, in the words of Thomas C. Moser, "the rare distinction of being a masterpiece in two separate genres. It is at once an exotic adventure story of the Eastern seas in the popular tradition of Kipling and Stevenson and a complexly wrought 'art novel' in the tradition of Flaubert and James. (summary by Stewart Wills)