| Lord Jim: Introduction by Norman Sherry Contributor(s): Conrad, Joseph (Author), Sherry, Norman (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 0679405445 ISBN-13: 9780679405443 Publisher: Everyman's Library OUR PRICE: $20.70 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 1992 Annotation: Lord Jim tells the story of a young, idealistic Englishman--'as unflinching as a hero in a book'--who is disgraced by an act of cowardice while serving as an officer on the Patna, a merchant-ship sailing from 'an Eastern port' with a party of Muslim pilgrims. His life is blighted: an isolated scandal assumes horrifying proportions. An older man, Marlow, befriends Jim, but his efforts to find him employment meet with little success until, at last, he is able to establish him in Patusan, a remote native settlement on one of the islands of the Malay Archipelago. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Action & Adventure - Fiction | Psychological |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 91053223 |
| Series: Everyman's Library Classics |
| Physical Information: 1.24" H x 5.38" W x 8.32" (1.27 lbs) 400 pages |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 5989 Reading Level: 9.1 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 24.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Lord Jim is a classic story of one man's tragic failure and eventual redemption, told under the circumstances of high adventure at the margins of the known world which made Conrad's work so immediately popular. But it is also the book in which its author, through a brilliant adaptation of his stylistic apparatus to his obsessive moral, psychological and political concerns, laid the groundwork for the modern novel as we know it. With An Introduction By Norman Sherry An expert on the works of Joseph Conrad, Professor Norman Sherry is the author of Conrad's Eastern World, Conrad's Western World and Conrad and His World. He is also the editor of Conrad: The Critical Heritage, and the official biographer of Graham Greene. (Book Jacket Status: Not Jacketed) |