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'To the white men in the waterside business and to the captain of ships he was just Jim - nothing more. He had, of course, another name, but he was anxious that it should not be pronounced.'Lord Jim tells the story of a young, idealistic Englishman - 'as unflinching as a hero in a book' - who is disgraced by a single act of cowardice while serving as an officer on the Patna, a merchant-ship sailing from an Eastern port. His life is blighted: an isolated scandal assumes horrifyingproportions. An older man, Marlow, befriends Jim, and helps to establish him in Patusan, a remote Malay settlement. There he achieves a kind of peace, but his courage is put to the test once more.Lord Jim is one of the most profound and rewarding psychological novels in English. Set in the context of social change and colonial expansion in late Victorian England, it embodies in Jim the values and the turmoil of a fading empire. In his introduction and notes to this new edition JacquesBerthoud explores the social and cultural dynamics that inform the novel.

ISBN-13

9780199536023

ISBN-10

0199536023

Weight

0.61 Pounds

Dimensions

7.75 x 0.75 x 6.87 In

List Price

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Edition

2nd Edition

Format

Paperback

Language

English

Pages

400 pages

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Published On

2008-06-15



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