Lord Jim A Tale Penguin Popular Classics

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When "Lord Jim" first appeared in 1900 many took Joseph Conrad to task for couching an entire novel in the form of an extended conversation - a ripping good yarn if you like Conrad defended his method insisting that people really do talk for that long and listen as well In fact his chatty masterwork requires no defense - it offers up not only linguistic pleasures but a timeless exploration of morality The eponymous Jim is a young good-looking genial and naive water-clerk on the Patna a cargo ship plying Asian watersHe is we are told 'the kind of fellow you would on the strength of his looks leave in charge of the deck' He also harbours romantic fantasies of adventure and heroism - which are promptly scuttled one night when the ship collides with an obstacle and begins to sink Acting on impulse Jim jumps overboard and lands in a lifeboat which happens to be bearing the unscrupulous captain and his cohorts away from the disaster The Patna however manages to stay afloat The foundering vessel is towed into port - and since the officers have strategically vanished Jim is left to stand trial for abandoning the ship and its 800 passengers --> Genre: Literary Fiction Classics