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Highlights
- A bold young English sailor has despised himself ever since an impulsive moment of cowardice.
- About the Author: Joseph Conrad (originally Józef Teodor Konrad Nalecz Korzeniowski) was born in the Ukraine in 1857 and grew up under Tsarist autocracy.
- 352 Pages
- Fiction + Literature Genres, Classics
- Series Name: Signet Classics
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About the Book
A bold young English sailor has despised himself ever since an impulsive moment of cowardice. Jim moves East to Patusan, where natives worship him--and where he may be able to find redemption. Includes a new Afterword. Revised reissue.Book Synopsis
A bold young English sailor has despised himself ever since an impulsive moment of cowardice. Jim moves East to Patusan, where natives worship him-and he may be able to find redemption...Review Quotes
"[Conrad has a] particular form of jolting the reader's attention."
-Ford Madox Ford
About the Author
Joseph Conrad (originally Józef Teodor Konrad Nalecz Korzeniowski) was born in the Ukraine in 1857 and grew up under Tsarist autocracy. His parents, ardent Polish patriots, died when he was a child, following their exile for anti-Russian activities, and he came under the protection of his tradition-conscious uncle, Thaddeus Bobrowski, who watched over him for the next twenty-five years. In 1874 Bobrowski conceded to his nephew's passionate desire to go to sea, and Conrad travelled to Marseilles, where he served in French merchant vessels before joining a British ship in 1878 as an apprentice. In 1886 he obtained British nationality and his Master's certificate in the British Merchant Service. Eight years later he left the sea to devote himself to writing, publishing his first novel, Almayer's Folly, in 1895. The following year he married Jessie George and eventually settled in Kent, where he produced within fifteen years such modern classics as Youth, Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, Typhoon, Nostromo, The Secret Agent and Under Western Eyes. He continued to write until his death in 1924. Today Conrad is generally regarded as one of the greatest writers of fiction in English--his third language. He once described himself as being concerned 'with the ideal value of things, events and people'; in the Preface to The Nigger of the 'Narcissus' he defined his task as 'by the power of the written word ... before all, to make you see'.Dimensions (Overall): 6.76 Inches (H) x 4.24 Inches (W) x .98 Inches (D)
Weight: .37 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 352
Series Title: Signet Classics
Genre: Fiction + Literature Genres
Sub-Genre: Classics
Publisher: Signet Book
Format: Paperback
Author: Joseph Conrad
Language: English
Street Date: June 2, 2009
TCIN: 77262925
UPC: 9780451531278
Item Number (DPCI): 247-53-1368
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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