Lord Jim

by Watts, Cedric; Conrad, Joseph

• ISBN13: 9781551111728
• ISBN10: 1551111721
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-10-01
• Publisher: Broadview Pr

Summary

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. "From the Hardcover edition."

Author Biography

A. Michael Matin is a professor in the English Department of Warren Wilson College in Asheville, North Carolina.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	6	(7)
Introduction	7	(16)
A Note on the Text and on Editorial Procedures	23	(5)
Joseph Conrad: A Brief Chronology	28	(5)
Chronology of Events in Lord Jim	33	(1)
Map	34	(1)
Lord Jim	35	(338)
Appendix A: Conrad's ``Author's Note'' (1917)	373	(3)
Appendix B: Comments by Conrad	376	(2)
Appendix C: Contemporaneous Reviews	378	(7)
Appendix D: Sources and Contexts (I): James Brooke, the ``White Rajah'' of Sarawak	385	(18)
Appendix E: Sources and Contexts (2): The Jeddah Scandal	403	(19)
Appendix F: Sources and Contexts (3): McNair's Perak and the Malays	422	(3)
Appendix G: Sources and Contexts (4): Wallace, Stein, and Doramin	425	(3)
Appendix H: Sources and Contexts (5): The Douro, the Cutty Sark, and the Rev. William Hazlitt	428	(5)
Appendix I: Comments on Imperialism and Colonialism	433	(19)
Select Bibliography	452