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Lord Jim
de Conrad, Joseph
- Usado
- Bien
- Tapa blanda
- Estado
- Good
- ISBN 10
- 0140180923
- ISBN 13
- 9780140180923
- Librería
-
Shell Lake, Wisconsin, United States
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Sobre este artículo
W. W. Norton & Company. Good. 1968. Paperback. 0140180923 . ; 19 oz.; 486 pages; PB '68 ED 1st end page clipped aged Edited by Thomas C. Moser An Authoritative Text Backgrounds and Sources Essays in Criticism. This classic novel is about a young naval officer named Jim with high hopes of glory, but when he faces his first trial of courage, he fails miserably. When the cargo ship Jim is on starts to sink, he jumps into a lifeboat to save himself instead of waking the doomed pilgrims. This action haunts him the rest of his life, but he does get another chance to redeem himself. .
Sinopsis
Joseph Conrad’s Lord Jim follows the events that determine the fate of Jim, a young British seaman. Jim becomes first mate on the Patna, a ship full of pilgrims travelling to Mecca for the hajj. When the ship begins taking in water and disaster is sure to follow, Jim joins his captain and other crewmembers in abandoning the ship and its passengers. The crew is saved by a French ship a few days later and soon learns that the Patna and its passengers were also rescued. The crew’s reprehensible actions are exposed. As a trial ensues, Jim must come to terms with his past. Enter Marlow, sea captain and narrator of Lord Jim as well as three of Conrad’s other works (Heart of Darkness, Youth, and Chance). In spite of Jim’s moral unsoundness, Marlow befriends him during the trial and learns the full story of the Patna, which he relates to the reader. The primary event of Lord Jim may have been based in part on an actual abandonment of a ship. On July 17, 1880, S.S. Jeddah sailed for Penang and Jeddah from Singapore with 778 men, 147 women, and 67 children on board. When the vessel began to leak, the crew abandoned the passengers, who were also travelling to Mecca for the hajj. On August 8, 1880, a French steamship found Jeddah, rescuing all of the pilgrims. An official inquiry followed, as it does in the novel. Lord Jim is ranked 85th on Modern Library’s “100 Best” English-language novels of the 20th century. The novel has been adapted for film twice: Lord Jim (1925), directed by Victor Fleming, and Lord Jim (1965), directed by Richard Brooks and starring Peter O'Toole.
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Detalles
- Librería
- Mistymornin Books
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 8853
- Título
- Lord Jim
- Autor
- Conrad, Joseph
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa blanda
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Good
- ISBN 10
- 0140180923
- ISBN 13
- 9780140180923
- Editorial
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Lugar de publicación
- Harmondsworth
- Fecha de publicación
- 1968
- Palabras clave
- 0140180923
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Literature/Fiction;
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