內容簡介
This is a classic story of one man's tragic failure and eventual redemption, told under the circumstances of high adventure at the margins of the known world.
But when the Patna,on a night crossing of the Arabian Sea,collides with a mysterious obstacle,Jim panics and jumps free.This single act of cowardice drives him to self-enforced exile as a white trader in the remote tropical outpost of Patusan.
Jim'a search for redemption and his dramatic bid to vindicate his romantic ideals are the stuff of a magnificently vivd and subtle novel.With Heart of Darkness,Nostromo and The Secret Agent,Lord Jim ranks among Joseph Conrad's masterpieces.
作者簡介:This is a classic story of one man's tragic failure and eventual redemption, told under the circumstances of high adventure at the margins of the known world.
But when the Patna,on a night crossing of the Arabian Sea,collides with a mysterious obstacle,Jim panics and jumps free.This single act of cowardice drives him to self-enforced exile as a white trader in the remote tropical outpost of Patusan.
Jim'a search for redemption and his dramatic bid to vindicate his romantic ideals are the stuff of a magnificently vivd and subtle novel.With Heart of Darkness,Nostromo and The Secret Agent,Lord Jim ranks among Joseph Conrad's masterpieces.
作者簡介:
Joseph Conrad(1857-1924),Known primarily as a writer of sea stories in his own time,Conrad has since been acclaimed as a leading influence in the Modernist movement,with his novels displaying a masterful narrative technique.
Conrad wrote Lord fim between 1898 and 1900,with it first appearing in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine in October 1899 and running over a period of eleven moths.Reviews at the time remained divided about the book's merits,but the Manchester Guardian praised it highly,caling it"a book to make the world wider and deeper."
But when the Patna,on a night crossing of the Arabian Sea,collides with a mysterious obstacle,Jim panics and jumps free.This single act of cowardice drives him to self-enforced exile as a white trader in the remote tropical outpost of Patusan.
Jim'a search for redemption and his dramatic bid to vindicate his romantic ideals are the stuff of a magnificently vivd and subtle novel.With Heart of Darkness,Nostromo and The Secret Agent,Lord Jim ranks among Joseph Conrad's masterpieces.
作者簡介:This is a classic story of one man's tragic failure and eventual redemption, told under the circumstances of high adventure at the margins of the known world.
But when the Patna,on a night crossing of the Arabian Sea,collides with a mysterious obstacle,Jim panics and jumps free.This single act of cowardice drives him to self-enforced exile as a white trader in the remote tropical outpost of Patusan.
Jim'a search for redemption and his dramatic bid to vindicate his romantic ideals are the stuff of a magnificently vivd and subtle novel.With Heart of Darkness,Nostromo and The Secret Agent,Lord Jim ranks among Joseph Conrad's masterpieces.
作者簡介:
Joseph Conrad(1857-1924),Known primarily as a writer of sea stories in his own time,Conrad has since been acclaimed as a leading influence in the Modernist movement,with his novels displaying a masterful narrative technique.
Conrad wrote Lord fim between 1898 and 1900,with it first appearing in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine in October 1899 and running over a period of eleven moths.Reviews at the time remained divided about the book's merits,but the Manchester Guardian praised it highly,caling it"a book to make the world wider and deeper."