Abandoning a ship he believed was sinking costs a young officer every year that follows.
Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad examines that single failure and what comes of it across distant ports and a long self imposed exile. Conrad is less interested in the act than in the question of whether a person can be permanently defined by one moment, and the narration circles the events rather than marching through them. The prose is dense and deliberate, and the psychological reading it invites is why the novel sits high in the English canon.
Where the interest lies:
• A novel built around guilt, honour and the search for redemption
• Layered narration that withholds and reveals by turns
• Maritime settings drawn from Conrad's own years at sea
• Conrad's complete text in the Collins Classics paperback series
For readers of literary fiction, students of the modern novel and classics collectors, published in Collins Classics and available from Boipoka.
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