Lord Jim

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U Lord Jim For those who, like Conrad's Lord Jim, cover the lonely ocean routes the sea is both enemy and friend. For Jim too, a good part of his life, it was an old enemy. As a young ship's officer he liked to dream a little about the stars high above his ship gliding smoothly through calm waters, but once when the going was rough, and he thought his ship was sinking with its humán cargo aboard, he 'funked\ Panicking, he jumped into the sea, thinking that was the end of the matter, but found himself facing serious charges when the Patna and its cargo were wrenched from c the breach of the sea5 by a French warship . . . but having lost honour, Jim went to the ends of the earth to retrieve it. His search for manhood led him in his outcast days to a remote district in Malay, called Patusan, and in this lonely place he became great white lord of a small community. There Jim's odyssey comes full circle and there too, once Gentleman Brown and his evil gang penetrate this paradise, he has... Tovább

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U Lord Jim For those who, like Conrad's Lord Jim, cover the lonely ocean routes the sea is both enemy and friend. For Jim too, a good part of his life, it was an old enemy. As a young ship's officer he liked to dream a little about the stars high above his ship gliding smoothly through calm waters, but once when the going was rough, and he thought his ship was sinking with its humán cargo aboard, he 'funked\ Panicking, he jumped into the sea, thinking that was the end of the matter, but found himself facing serious charges when the Patna and its cargo were wrenched from c the breach of the sea5 by a French warship . . . but having lost honour, Jim went to the ends of the earth to retrieve it. His search for manhood led him in his outcast days to a remote district in Malay, called Patusan, and in this lonely place he became great white lord of a small community. There Jim's odyssey comes full circle and there too, once Gentleman Brown and his evil gang penetrate this paradise, he has a price to pay for freedom. . . . The tale moves with all Conrad^s sense of the cosmic, a narrative of great richness, subtlety and depth, teliing us something of the mystery, and even the purpose, of life in its unfolding. Lord Jim is the greatest sea story from a writer of great sea stories; a tale of the Pacific, and strange places, even stranger rogues, the humán flotsam and jetsam of the world, who are thrown up on the beaches of Celebes, Macassar and Penang. , But Jim, a man in his weakness, and a man in his strength, playing out his mortal struggle with self, holds the interest from first page to last. Vissza