Lord Jim: (Starbooks Classics Editions) - Couverture souple

Conrad, Joseph

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1497478111 ISBN 13 : 9781497478114

Editeur : CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014

Synopsis

“My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel--it is, before all, to make you see.”
--- Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim

Lord Jim is a novel by Joseph Conrad originally published as a serial in Blackwood's Magazine from October 1899 to November 1900.

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.

In 1998, the Modern Library ranked Lord Jim No. 85 on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

CONRAD, JOSEPH (3 December 1857 – 3 August 1924), English novelist, was born in Poland, his full name having been Joseph Conrad Korzeniowski. He learnt French in infancy, but did not learn English until he was nearly twenty. At Constantinople, where he had gone with the intention of joining the Russians against the Turks, he joined the French merchant navy. Later on he found his way to Lowestoft in England, and, after obtaining his mate's certificate, he sailed for the East in an English ship. The story of this voyage is told in Youth, and other Tales (1902). His chief other volumes are Almayer's Folly (1895), An Outcast of the Islands (1896), The Nigger of the Narcissus (1897), Tales of Unrest (1898), Lord Jim (1900), Typhoon (1903), The Mirror of the Sea (1906), and, with F. M. Hueffer, Romance (1903). All of these are remarkable for their vigorous English style, and the vivid description of exotic scenes; the author being especially successful in tracing the effects of tropical surrounding and the contact with Asiatics on European sailors and traders. His play One Day More was produced by the Stage Society in June 1905.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1497478111
• ISBN 13: 9781497478114
• Reliure: Broché
• Illustrateur: Graphics Akira
• Nombre de pages: 334
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible