Lord Jim (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781479267712)

Lord Jim is a novel by Joseph Conrad first published in October 1899.An early and primary event is the abandonment of a ship in distress by its crew including the young British seaman Jim. He is publicly censured for this action and the novel follows his later attempts at coming to terms with his past. Joseph Conrad (born J zef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski(3 December 1857 - 3 August 1924) was a Polish novelist who wrote in English, after settling in England. Conrad is regarded as one of the great novelists in English, though he did not speak the language fluently until he was in his twenties . He wrote stories and novels, often with a nautical setting, that depict trials of the human spirit in the midst of an indifferent universe. He was a master prose stylist who brought a distinctly non-English tragic sensibility into English literature.

Author: Alex Struik, Joseph Conrad
ISBN-10: 1479267716
ISBN-13: 9781479267712
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 09/05/2012
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.17lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.82d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 9.1
Point Value: 24
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 5989 / Lord Jim