Lord Jim (Signet classics)
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0451522346
ISBN 13
9780451522344
Category
Classics - Z / T - JH/HS
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Publication Year
1961
Publisher
Pages
317
Subject
F Con
Description
The novel of the outcast from civilization finding refuge in the tropics.
The natives of Patusan in the Far East worship the bold young Englishman by the name of "Lord Jim", but he despises himself. Tortured by an act of cowardice and desertion that wrecked his career in the Merchant Service years before, and tormented by his ideal of what an officer should be, he has fled from scandal farther and farther East. It is only here in remote Patusan, filling a post given him by the trader Stein, that he at last finds the will to cease sacrificing himself on the alter of conscience. He becomes a part of life again by accepting the "destructive element within himself". And he follows his star to the end - marrying the beautiful half-caste, Jewel, defending Patusan against the evil "Gentleman Brown." This is a story of dramatic action and psychological penetration.
The natives of Patusan in the Far East worship the bold young Englishman by the name of "Lord Jim", but he despises himself. Tortured by an act of cowardice and desertion that wrecked his career in the Merchant Service years before, and tormented by his ideal of what an officer should be, he has fled from scandal farther and farther East. It is only here in remote Patusan, filling a post given him by the trader Stein, that he at last finds the will to cease sacrificing himself on the alter of conscience. He becomes a part of life again by accepting the "destructive element within himself". And he follows his star to the end - marrying the beautiful half-caste, Jewel, defending Patusan against the evil "Gentleman Brown." This is a story of dramatic action and psychological penetration.
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