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When Lord Jim first appeared in 1900, many took Joseph Conrad to task for couching an entire novel in the form of an extended conversation--a ripping good yarn, if you like. (One critic in The Academy complained that the narrator "was telling that after-dinner story to his companions for eleven solid hours.") Conrad defended his method, insisting that people really do talk for that long, and listen as well. In fact his chatty masterwork requires no defense--it offers up not only linguistic pleasures but a timeless exploration of morality.

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(Book Jacket Status: Not Jacketed) Lord Jim 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 which made Conrad's work so immediately popular. But it is also the book in which its author, through a brilliant adaptation of his stylistic apparatus to his obsessive moral, psychological and political concerns, laid the groundwork for the modern novel as we know it. With An Introduction By Norman Sherry An expert on the works of Joseph Conrad, Professor Norman Sherry is the author of Conrad's Eastern World, Conrad's Western World and Conrad and His World. He is also the editor of Conrad: The Critical Heritage, and the official biographer of Graham Greene.

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Joseph Conrad, christened Josef Teodor Konrad, NaleczKorzeniowski, was born on December 3, 1857, in a part of Russiathat had once belonged to Poland. His parents were members of thelanded gentry, but as ardent Polish patriots, the sufferedconsiderably for their political views. Orphaned at eleven, Conradattended school for a few years in Cracow, He soon concluded,however, that there was no future for a Pole in occupied Poland,and at sixteen he left his ancestral home forever.

Joseph Conrad, christened Josef Teodor Konrad, Nalecz
Korzeniowski, was born on December 3, 1857, in a part of Russia
that had once belonged to Poland. His parents were members of the
landed gentry, but as ardent Polish patriots, the suffered
considerably for their political views. Orphaned at eleven, Conrad
attended school for a few years in Cracow, He soon concluded,
however, that there was no future for a Pole in occupied Poland,
and at sixteen he left his ancestral home forever. 
 
The sea was Conrad's love and career for the next twenty years. In
the French merchant marine, he sailed to the West. Indies, smuggled
guns to Spanish rebels, ran into debt, and bungled a suicide
attempt Then in the British merchant navy, he rose to first mate
and finally to captain, sailing to Australia and Borneo and
surviving at least one shipwreck. In 1890 he contracted to become
captain of a Congo River steamer, but the six months he spent in
Africa led only to disillusionment and ill health; this episode
would become the basis for Conrad's masterpiece, Heart of Darkness.
Reluctantly leaving the merchant service, he settled in England and
completed his first novel, Almayer's Folly, already begun at
sea. 
 
Hi subsequent works, many of which drew upon his sea experiences,
include The Nigger of the "Narcissus" (1897), Lord
Jim (1900), Heart of Darkness (1902), Youth
(1902) Typhoon (1903), Nastromo (1904), The Secret
Agent (1907), The Secret Sharer (1910), Under the
Western Eyes (1911), and Chance (1913). The man who was
twenty-one years old before he spoke a word of English is now
regarded as one of the superb English stylists of all time. Conrad
died almost literally on his desk in 1924, at the age of
sixty-six.

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