Lord Jim

Lord Jim is a novel by Joseph Conrad published in 1900. The novel falls into two parts, a psychological tale about Jim's moral lapse aboard the pilgrim ship Patna, and an adventure story about Jim's rise and fall amongst the people of Patusan, a native-ruled state somewhere in the interior of one of the islands of the East Indies. Some critics have said that the second part of the story is inferior to the first, but it is necessary to the working out of the psychological drama established in the first part.

External links

• {{gutenberg|no=5658|name=Lord Jim}}.
• The Literary Encyclopedia
• "Stephen Crane as a Source for Conrad's Jim", Nina Galen, Nineteenth-Century Fiction, vol. 38, no. 1 (1983).
• Biography of Conrad by Deborah Lindsay Williams