![]() (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. With his youthful, romantic aspirations for the sea, he is physically powerful he has 'Ability in the abstract. Just how he is to become 'Tuan Jim' or ' Lord Jim ,' however, remains to be told. 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. by Joseph Conrad Buy Study Guide Lord Jim Summary Jim, the well-loved son of an English parson, goes to sea to make a name for himself. Moser, "the rare distinction of being a masterpiece in two separate genres. 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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