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- Author
- Joseph Conrad
- First published
- 1900
- Editions
- 344
- Subjects
- Fiction, British, Officers, Merchant marine, Atonement, Cowardice, Fiction in English, Travel
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Key facts
- Author
- Joseph Conrad
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Psychological novel Modernism
- Publisher
- Blackwood's Magazine
- Publication place
- Britain
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Wikidata facts
- Read free · Project Gutenberg
- #5658
- Instance of
- literary work
- Author
- Joseph Conrad
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Publisher
- Blackwood's Magazine
- Follows
- Heart of Darkness
- Narrative location
- Asia
- Image
- PL Joseph Conrad-Lord Jim t.1 003.jpeg
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- publication date
- 1900-00-00
- title
- Lord Jim
- language of work or name
- English language
- Commons category
- Lord Jim
- first line
- He was an inch, perhaps two, under six feet, powerfully built, and he advanced straight at you with a slight stoop of the shoulders, head forward, and a fixed from-under stare which made you think of a charging bull.
- last line
- ‘Who knows? He is gone, inscrutable at heart, and the poor girl is leading a sort of soundless, inert life in Stein’s house. Stein has aged greatly of late. He feels it himself, and says often that he is “preparing to leave all this; preparing to leave…” while he waves his hand sadly at his butterflies.’
- copyright status
- public domain
- different from
- Lord Jim
- derivative work
- Lord Jim
- form of creative work
- novel
- work available at URL
- portal.dnb.de/bookviewer/view/125202634X
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Encyclopedic overview
Lord Jim is a novel by Joseph Conrad originally published as a serial in Blackwood's Magazine from October 1899 to November 1900. An early and primary event in the story is the abandonment of a passenger ship in distress by its crew, including a young British seaman named Jim. He is publicly censured for this action and the novel follows his later attempts at coming to terms with himself and his past and seeking redemption and acceptance.
In 1998 the Modern Library ranked Lord Jim 85th on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lord Jim” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.