Lord Jim Summary
Joseph Conrad

Lord Jim: A Tale by Joseph Conrad Joseph Conrad was born in Russian-occupied Poland in 1857 to an aristocratic family involved in anti-Russian activities. For two decades (c. 1878 to 1895), he trav... Read more

AUTHOR’S NOTE When this novel first appeared in book form a notion got about that I had been bolted away with.  Some reviewers maintained that the work starting as a short story had got bey... Read more

Biography EssayJoseph Conrad is now widely accepted as one of the modernist masters of serious narrative fiction. Historically placed, he is a major figure in the transition from Victorian fiction to ... Read more

Writing in his The Great Tradition, the respected critic F. R. Leavis noted that Joseph Conrad "is among the greatest novelists in the language--in any language." Indeed, language is at the very heart... Read more

Joseph Conrad is now widely accepted as one of the modernist masters of serious narrative fiction. Historically placed, he is a major figure in the transition from Victorian fiction to the more perpl... Read more

The short fiction of Joseph Conrad is central to his literary achievement. Conrad wrote forty-three works of fiction, of which thirty-one are short, ranging from stories of a few pages to novellas of ... Read more