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Lord Jim

Lord Jim

Author(s): Joseph Conrad

Location(s): Indonesia

Genre(s): Fiction

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Jim is young, ambitious and idealistic, keen to make his name in the world. But fate has other plans. Jim has been made First Mate on board the Patna, but when the she starts to flood in the middle of the voyage, Jim joins the captain and crew in abandoning the ship and her passengers to their fate. The ship survives, but Jim is stripped of his rank for dereliction of duty, and realises how far short he has fallen of his dreams of becoming a leader and a hero.

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So much to say about this book.  One one hand it’s an adventure tale, but on the other it’s a forerunner of the modern novel, told from various points of view, creating an almost cubist...

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