![]() ![]() (summary by Stewart Wills)įor further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording.įor more information, or to volunteer, visit. ![]() It is at once an exotic adventure story of the Eastern seas in the popular tradition of Kipling and Stevenson and a complexly wrought 'art novel' in the tradition of Flaubert and James. Lord Jim is a novel by the Polish-British writer Joseph Conrad, first published serially in Blackwood’s Magazine from 1899 to 1900, and widely regarded as a major achievement of twentieth-century fiction. The waters he travels reward him with the ability to explore the human spirit, while. An English boy in a simple town has dreams bigger than the outdoors and embarks at an early age into the sailors life. Moser, "the rare distinction of being a masterpiece in two separate genres. 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. ![]() The novel, written by Conrad for magazine serialization during an intense and chaotic ten months in 18, has, in the words of Thomas C. Librivox recording of Lord Jim, by Joseph Conrad.Ī classic of early literary modernism, Lord Jim tells the story of a young "simple and sensitive character" who loses his honor in a display of cowardice at sea - and of his expiation of that sin against his own "shadowy ideal of conduct" on the remote island of Patusan. ![]()
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