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LORD JIM
by Conrad, Joseph
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- first
- Condition
- Very good plus.
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About This Item
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1900. Very good plus.. First edition of this nautical-psychological journal, in which the antihero travels far and wide in pursuit of anonymity. On a quest to forget about his cowardly actions during a crisis at sea, Jim lands at a remote port in the South Seas, where he becomes a community leader but eventually sacrifices his life for moral redemption.
Many of Conrad's works, still steeped in a white European perspective, nevertheless grapple with race and colonialism in a more skeptical way than most of his white contemporaries, and LORD JIM is no exception. Historian Elleke Boehmer contrasts LORD JIM to Rudyard Kipling's KIM, published a year later, noting that Conrad voices deep concern about British colonialism while Kipling's support of the Empire shows through in his narrative; LORD JIM, she notes, "can be seen as a defining tale of the doubt which threatened the project of European expansion" (59). 7.5'' x 5''. Original green cloth binding with black lettering. Fore-edge machine deckle. 452 pages. Binding corners and spine ends lightly bumped. Leaf margins with scattered foxing. A bright copy.
Many of Conrad's works, still steeped in a white European perspective, nevertheless grapple with race and colonialism in a more skeptical way than most of his white contemporaries, and LORD JIM is no exception. Historian Elleke Boehmer contrasts LORD JIM to Rudyard Kipling's KIM, published a year later, noting that Conrad voices deep concern about British colonialism while Kipling's support of the Empire shows through in his narrative; LORD JIM, she notes, "can be seen as a defining tale of the doubt which threatened the project of European expansion" (59). 7.5'' x 5''. Original green cloth binding with black lettering. Fore-edge machine deckle. 452 pages. Binding corners and spine ends lightly bumped. Leaf margins with scattered foxing. A bright copy.
Synopsis
Joseph Conrad’s Lord Jim follows the events that determine the fate of Jim, a young British seaman. Jim becomes first mate on the Patna, a ship full of pilgrims travelling to Mecca for the hajj. When the ship begins taking in water and disaster is sure to follow, Jim joins his captain and other crewmembers in abandoning the ship and its passengers. The crew is saved by a French ship a few days later and soon learns that the Patna and its passengers were also rescued. The crew’s reprehensible actions are exposed. As a trial ensues, Jim must come to terms with his past. Enter Marlow, sea captain and narrator of Lord Jim as well as three of Conrad’s other works (Heart of Darkness, Youth, and Chance). In spite of Jim’s moral unsoundness, Marlow befriends him during the trial and learns the full story of the Patna, which he relates to the reader. The primary event of Lord Jim may have been based in part on an actual abandonment of a ship. On July 17, 1880, S.S. Jeddah sailed for Penang and Jeddah from Singapore with 778 men, 147 women, and 67 children on board. When the vessel began to leak, the crew abandoned the passengers, who were also travelling to Mecca for the hajj. On August 8, 1880, a French steamship found Jeddah, rescuing all of the pilgrims. An official inquiry followed, as it does in the novel. Lord Jim is ranked 85th on Modern Library’s “100 Best” English-language novels of the 20th century. The novel has been adapted for film twice: Lord Jim (1925), directed by Victor Fleming, and Lord Jim (1965), directed by Richard Brooks and starring Peter O'Toole.
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- Bookseller
- Type Punch Matrix
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 44833
- Title
- LORD JIM
- Author
- Conrad, Joseph
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good plus.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- William Blackwood and Sons
- Place of Publication
- Edinburgh and London
- Date Published
- 1900
- Keywords
- 20th century,English & British,Books to Film,Adventure Fiction
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