Also download the Kindle cover thumbnail to see the cover in your Kindleâs library. The gradual build-up of their richly described viewpoints imparts glimpses of Jimâs inner life, yet ultimately leaves him unknowable.Ĭompatible epub â All devices and apps except Kindles and Kobos.Īzw3 â Kindle devices and apps. The book is remarkable for its unusual nested narrative structure, in which Captain Marlow and a number of other characters provide multiple perspectives of the protagonist. Lord Jim explores issues of colonialism, dreams of heroism, guilt, failure, and redemption.

The abandoning of the Patna by its crew is said to have been based on the real-life abandoning of the S.S. There heâs able to earn the respect of the islanders and is dubbed âLord Jim.â The resulting censure prevents Jim from finding stable employment, until a captain named Marlow suggests he find his future in Patusan, a small village on a remote island in the South Seas. The story begins when the young British seaman Jim, one of the crew of the steamer Patna, abandons the ship while itâs in distress.

The first edition of the complete book was published by William Blackwood and Sons in 1900. Lord Jim was first published as a serial in Blackwoodâs Magazine between October 1899 and November 1900. Â 75 in the Le Mondeâs 100 Books of the Century Â 85 in the Modern Libraryâs 100 Best Novels Standard Ebooksġ31,501 words (7 hours 59 minutes) with a reading ease of 69.82 (fairly easy) Lord Jim, by Joseph Conrad - Free ebook download - Standard Ebooks: Free and liberated ebooks, carefully produced for the true book lover.

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