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.
But when the Patna,on a night crossing of the Arabian Sea,collides with a mysterious obstacle,Jim panics and jumps free.This single act of cowardice drives him to self-enforced exile as a white trader in the remote tropical outpost of Patusan.
Jim'a search for redemption and his dramatic bid to vindicate his romantic ideals are the stuff of a magnificently vivd and subtle novel.With Heart of Darkness,Nostromo and The Secret Agent,Lord Jim ranks among Joseph Conrad's masterpieces. 作者简介:
Joseph Conrad(1857-1924),Known primarily as a writer of sea stories in his own time,Conrad has since been acclaimed as a leading influence in the Modernist movement,with his novels displaying a masterful narrative technique.
Conrad wrote Lord fim between 1898 and 1900,with it first appearing in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine in October 1899 and running over a period of eleven moths.Reviews at the time remained divided about the book's merits,but the Manchester Guardian praised it highly,caling it"a book to make the world wider and deeper."
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