Lord Jim

Author : Joseph Conrad
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2000-11-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1551111721

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Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad Pdf

One of Joseph Conrad’s greatest novels, Lord Jim brilliantly combines adventure and analysis. Haunted by the memory of a moment of lost nerve during a disastrous voyage, Jim submits to condemnation by a Court of Inquiry. In the wake of his disgrace he travels to the exotic region of Patusan, and as the agent at this remote trading post comes to be revered as ‘Tuan Jim.’ Here he finds a measure of serenity and respect within himself. However, when a gang of thieves arrives on the island, the memory of his earlier disgrace comes again to the fore, and his relationship with the people of the island is jeopardized. This new Broadview edition is based on the first British edition of 1900, which provides the historical basis for the accompanying critical and contextual discussions. The appendices include a wide variety of Conrad’s source material, documents concerning the scandal of the Jeddah, along with other materials such as a substantial selection of early critical comments.

Author : Joseph Conrad
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08
Category : History
ISBN : 1290481148

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Lord Jim, a Tale by Joseph Conrad Pdf

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

Author : Joseph Conrad
Publisher : Modernista
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789174997002

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Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad Pdf

Fartyget Patna har gått på grund och tar in vatten. De 800 pilgrimerna ombord sover, ovetandes om krisen och det faktum att det bara finns sju livbåtar. I panik lossar kaptenen en livbåt för att överge skeppet och alla däri, övertygad om att Patna är förlorat. Den nyanställde sjömannen Jim följer kaptenen efter viss tvekan - ett beslut han kommer att ångra resten av sitt liv. Lord Jim är en mästerlig berättelse om en ung mans kamp med sin egen moral och har av Modern Library valts till en av de hundra bästa engelskspråkiga romanerna genom tiderna. I översättning av Vera och Stig Dahlstedt. JOSEPH CONRAD [1857–1924] föddes i ryska Ukraina av polska föräldrar, gick till sjöss som sjuttonåring och slutade som kapten i engelska handelsflottan. Efter en svår febersjukdom bosatte han sig i England och började skriva romaner. Hans mest berömda verk är kortromanen Mörkrets hjärta [Heart of Darkness, 1899].

Author : John Batchelor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0367321084

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Lord Jim by John Batchelor Pdf

Published in 1900, Conrad's Lord Jimcan in many ways be seen as the first 'modern' novel. This important full study of the book, originally published in 1988, emphasizes the outstanding historical and artistic significance of Conrad's masterpiece. John Batchelor pursues the ways in which Conrad dramatizes with unprecedented fidelity a relationship between friends and also explores what for Conrad is clearly a central truth about the human condition, namely the inalienable loneliness of man. The book provides a full discussion of the biographical and literary contexts of the novel, making use of the original manuscript and tracing the literary influences and sources of Conrad's writing. It also considers the novel's technical innovations, including Conrad's 'impressionism' and its method of dramatization. Further chapters are devoted to a detailed commentary on the text and the book concludes with a study of the novel's critical reception since its first publication. This volume will be essential reading for all students of literature and particularly for those with an interest in Conrad's place in the development of modern fiction. cation. This volume will be essential reading for all students of literature and particularly for those with an interest in Conrad's place in the development of modern fiction.

Author : B. Paris
Publisher : Springer
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2006-01-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781403983374

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Conrad’s Charlie Marlow by B. Paris Pdf

This study argues that Conrad portrays Marlow and his relationships with a psychological depth that is unsurpassed in literature. In Youth , Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim , he is a continuously-evolving character whose thoughts, feelings, and behaviours are expressions of his personality and experience.

Author : Kenneth B. Newell
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2011-01-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781443827911

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Conrad’s Destructive Element by Kenneth B. Newell Pdf

This book presents a new interpretation of Joseph Conrad’s novel Lord Jim based on readings from not only its published text but also its principal manuscript text. Extensive use of the manuscript text has not been a feature of any other work on Lord Jim, and such use helps bring into focus a fixed pattern of meaning and an implicit unity that Conrad said the novel has. This result controverts not only postmodern critics, who say that the novel lacks any fixed pattern of meaning, but almost all critics since its publication, who have said that it lacks unity—specifically, that it separates into two halves, the Patna half and the Patusan half. However, with the help of the manuscript text, a detailed interpretation extending over the whole of Lord Jim shows it to be a unified whole. As Conrad wrote to his publisher four days after completing the novel, it is “the development of one situation, only one really from beginning to end.” Most recent Lord Jim criticism discusses the novel from a standpoint critical of the author and in political or epistemological terms, whereas the present book discusses it from a standpoint sympathetic to the author and in symbolic and metaphysical terms. The metaphysical question that pervades the novel and helps unify it is whether the “destructive element” that is the “spirit” of the Universe has intention—and, beyond that, malevolent intention—toward any particular individual or is, instead, indiscriminate, impartial, and indifferent. Depending (as a corollary) on the answer to that question is the degree to which the particular individual can be judged responsible for what he does or does not do. Variant responses to the question or its corollary are provided not only by several characters and voices in Lord Jim but also by a letter of Conrad’s and by excerpts from works by Arthur Schopenhauer, Thomas Hardy, James Thomson (“B. V.”), and John Stuart Mill. The present book is written in a lay vocabulary free of the diction of postmodern theory and so would be understandable to non-academic as well as academic readers. It is intended for anyone interested in gaining a coherent nonpolitical understanding of Lord Jim.

Author : James W. Parins,Robert J. Dilligan,Todd K. Bender
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-27
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781000042580

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A Concordance to Conrad's Lord Jim by James W. Parins,Robert J. Dilligan,Todd K. Bender Pdf

Originally published in 1976, this publication falls into three parts: The Verbal Index, The Word Frequency Table, and The Field of Reference. A scholar interested in the full range of connotation for the word heart in Conrad would look first to the word frequency table to see how often the word in question occurs in Lord Jim. If the word is indeed part of the vocabulary of the novel, he then would turn to its alphabetical listing in the verbal index and the line numbers in which it appears. Then turning to the field of reference, he could locate the lines cited and look at each occurrence of the word in context. The authors feel that the data provided by these tables is of basic importance to both the editor and the literary critic.

Author : Norman Sherry
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521291208

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Conrad's Eastern World by Norman Sherry Pdf

A book for those interested in Conrad's life and work and/or literary detection convincingly performed. Professor Sherry establishes how well Conrad knew the East and how the original material he garnered there was supplemented from other sources; he also shows what Conrad made of his experiences, thus revealing clearly what the artist's own contribution was.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2023-06-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004502420

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Lord Jim by Anonim Pdf

"Lord Jim: Centennial Essays" features eight essays by major Conrad scholars to celebrate the centenary of the publication of what is possibly Joseph Conrad's best known novel. This carefully edited volume covers a wide range of topics, and includes new work on the novel's reception and sources, narrative strategies, and thematic interests. Various contemporary critical approaches - Bakhtinian, postcolonial, and historicist - are aired and reconsidered, and a generous selection of documents relating to the Jeddah affair of 1880 sheds light on Conrad's use of real-life materials. The kaleidoscopic perspectives brought to bear on this landmark of literary Modernism will stimulate and challenge both scholars and students alike.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Author : Conrad J.
Publisher : Рипол Классик
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9785521060726

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Lord Jim by Conrad J. Pdf

Haunted by the memory of a moment of lost nerve during a disastrous voyage, Jim submits to condemnation by a Court of Inquiry. In the wake of his disgrace he travels to the exotic region of Patusan, and as the agent at this remote trading post comes to be revered as 'Tuan Jim.' Here he finds a measure of serenity and respect within himself. However, when a gang of thieves arrives on the island, the memory of his earlier disgrace comes again to the fore, and his relationship with the people of the island is jeopardized.

Author : Dinah Brooke
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2023-10-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781946022646

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Lord Jim at Home by Dinah Brooke Pdf

“A brilliant, chilling picture of the English middle class at home.” —Illustrated London News When Dinah Brooke’s second novel, Lord Jim at Home, was first published in 1973, it was described as “squalid and startling,” “nastily horrific,” and a “monstrous parody” of upper-middle class English life. It is the story of Giles Trenchard, who grows up isolated in an atmosphere of privilege and hidden violence; who goes to war, and returns; and then, one day—like the hero of Joseph Conrad's classic Lord Jim—commits an act that calls his past, his character, his whole world into question. Out of print for nearly half a century (and never published in the United States), Lord Jim at Home reveals a daring writer long overdue for reappraisal, whose work has retained all its originality and power. As Ottessa Moshfegh writes in her foreword to this new edition, Brooke evokes childhood vulnerability and adult cruelty “in a way that nice people are too polite to admit they understand.”

Author : Joseph Conrad
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781504041164

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Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad Pdf

From the author of Heart of Darkness: A condemned British seaman on the run from a grievous mistake in his past may find redemption in the Far East. A young British seaman, Jim lands a major opportunity when he becomes first mate on the Panta, a ship transporting Muslim pilgrims to Mecca for the hajj. But when disaster strikes at sea, Jim and the rest of the crew abandon the ship and its passengers. While his crewmates evade trial, Jim must face the court and is punished for his dereliction of duty. Depressed and tortured by his conscience over his act of cowardice, and stripped of his navigation officer’s certificate by the court, Jim travels east to avoid further scandal. His sea captain friend, Charles Marlow, helps him find work and settle in the remote island kingdom of Patusan, where the natives come to revere him. But as Jim slowly develops a measure of serenity and respect within himself, a looming danger may jeopardize the new life he has built. An adventurous tale of tragedy and redemption, Lord Jim is considered one of the greatest works by the author of Typhoon and The Secret Agent.

Author : Jim Butcher
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 637 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2009-11-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101151518

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First Lord's Fury by Jim Butcher Pdf

In the final novel in #1 New York Times bestselling author Jim Butcher's acclaimed Codex Alera series, the people of Alera—who use their unique bond with the elementals of earth, air, fire, water, wood, and metal for protection—must face the ultimate conflict… For Gaius Octavian, life has been one long struggle. Battling ancient enemies, forging new alliances, and confronting the corruption within his own land, he became a legendary man of war and leader of men—and the rightful First Lord of Alera. Now, the end of all he fought for is close at hand. The brutal, dreaded Vord are on the march, using fear and chaos to turn the Alerans against one another, and forcing those who will not submit to flee to the outer reaches of the realm. Perhaps for the final time, Gaius Octavian and his legions must stand against the enemies of his people. And it will take all his intelligence, ingenuity, and furycraft to save their world from eternal darkness...

Author : Kingsley Amis
Publisher : Viking
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : College teachers
ISBN : 0241956846

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Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis Pdf

'Lucky Jim' is the tale of university lecturer Jim Dixon who has to navigate the stumbling blocks of life at a red brick university, as he attempts to climb the social ladder to a moderately successful future.