Lord Jim
by Joseph Conrad · first published 1900
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This compact novel, completed in 1900, as with so many of the great novels of the time, is at its baseline a book of the sea. An English boy in a simple town has dreams bigger than the outdoors and embarks at an early age into the sailor's life. The waters he travels reward him with the ability to explore the human spirit, while Joseph Conrad launches the story into both an exercise of his technical prowess and a delicately crafted picture of a character who reaches the status of a literary hero.
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…terrible, full of cliché, badly written... So now I am actually planning what I am going to read next. There are lots of classic to chose from. Admittedly some are boring. Last year, I have really enjoyed Lord Jim, Nostromo and Heart of Darkness. I always have a "to read next" list with 10-20 books in it.
on “Ask HN: How do you choose what to read?” ↗I recently read Lord Jim (1900) by Joseph Conrad and really enjoyed it. There is a dense playfulness with words in a way that doesn't exist in my diet of Internet reading. The plot is unfurled from questionable narrators, deft…
on “Ask HN: Books you read in 2022 and recommend for 2023” ↗There's a passage in the introduction to one of Joseph Conrad's books, I think it's Lord Jim, where he's puzzled by a reader's reaction to the book: An Italian lady found something "morbid".
on “Bosnians who speak medieval Spanish” ↗Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
on “Ask HN: What books are you reading” ↗