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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 in the story is the abandonment of a passenger ship in distress by its crew, including a young British seaman named Jim.
Lord Jim: Directed by Richard Brooks. With Peter O'Toole, James Mason, Curd Jürgens, Eli Wallach. After being discredited as a coward, a 19th century seaman lives for only one purpose: to redeem himself.
Lord Jim is a 1965 British adventure film made for Columbia Pictures in Super Panavision. The picture was produced, written and directed by Richard Brooks, with Jules Buck and Peter O'Toole as associate producers. The film stars O'Toole, James Mason, Curd Jürgens, Eli Wallach, Jack Hawkins, Paul Lukas, and Daliah Lavi.
Lord Jim Full Book Summary. Lord Jim is the story of a man named Marlow's struggle to tell and to understand the life story of a man named Jim. Jim is a promising young man who goes to sea as a youth. He rises quickly through the ranks and soon becomes chief mate.
Lord Jim, novel by Joseph Conrad, published in 1900. The work, originally intended as a short story, grew to a full-length novel as Conrad explored in great depth the perplexing, ambiguous problem of lost honour and guilt, expiation and heroism. The title character is a man haunted by guilt over an.
31,142 ratings1,700 reviews. Jim, a young British seaman, becomes first mate on the Patna, a ship full of pilgrims travelling to Mecca for the hajj. When the ship starts rapidly taking on water and disaster seems imminent, Jim joins his captain and other crew members in abandoning the ship and its passengers.
Lord Jim Summary. Next. Chapter 1. Literary devices: Genre. Mood. Setting. Style. Tone. View all. Near the end of the nineteenth century, Jim is a young man in his mid-twenties who is the son of a relatively well-off parson in Britain.
