Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

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Editor - Allan H. Simmons

Introduction by - Allan H. Simmons

Editor - J. H. Stape

Notes by - J. H. Stape

Glossary - J. H. Stape

Penguin Classics
Paperback : 02 Aug 2007

£8.99

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This compact novel, completed in 1900, as with so many of the great novels of the time, is at its baseline a book of the sea. An English boy in a simple town has dreams bigger than the outdoors and embarks at an early age into the sailor's life. The waters he travels reward him with the ability to explore the human spirit, while Joseph Conrad launches the story into both an exercise of his technical prowess and a delicately crafted picture of a character who reaches the status of a literary hero.

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"Conrad's "Lord Jim" isn't an easy read; the depth of narrative is so great, and so challenging, that it often seemed like an uphill struggle. The author seems to be of the impression..."

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