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Lord Jim

Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924200708UU
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An English boy in a simple town has dreams bigger than the outdoors and embarks at an early age into the sailor's life. The waters he travels reward him with the ability to explore the human spirit. This compact novel, completed in 1900, is at its baseline a book of the sea. This compact novel, completed in 1900, as with so many of the great novels of the time, is at its baseline a book of the sea. An English boy in a simple town has dreams bigger than the outdoors and embarks at an early age into the sailor's life. The waters he travels reward him with the ability to explore the human spirit, while Joseph Conrad launches the story into both an exercise of his technical prowess and a delicately crafted picture of a character who reaches the status of a literary hero.
Main title:
Lord Jim / Joseph Conrad; Edited by J.H. Stape; Introduction by Allan Simmons.
Edition:
[New ed.] / edited with an introduction by Allan H. Simmons /with notes and glossaries by J.H. Snape /general editor, J.H. Snape.
Imprint:
London : Penguin Classics, 2007.
Collation:
400 p. ; 19x15x2 cm.
Series title:
Notes:
Paperback; B-format paperback.Originally published: 1900.
Biography/History:
Joseph Conrad was born in the Ukraine in 1857 and grew up under Tsarist autocracy. In 1874 Conrad travelled to Marseilles, where he served in French merchant vessels before joining a British ship in 1878 as an apprentice. In 1886 he obtained British nationality. Eight years later he left the sea to devote himself to writing, publishing his first novel, Almayer's Folly, in 1895. The following year he settled in Kent, where he produced within fifteen years such modern classics as Youth, Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, Typhoon, Nostromo, The Secret Agent and Under Western Eyes. He continued to write until his death in 1924.
ISBN:
9780141441610 (pbk)0141441615 (pbk)
Dewey class:
AFCL
Local class:
F
Language:
English
BRN:
181012
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