** "Lord Jim" by Joseph Conrad is a story set in the early 1900s that goes into the ideas of honor, courage, and what happens when someone fails. The main character, Jim, is a young man who wants to be a hero and earn respect, but he makes a bad choice that changes his life forever. We meet Jim as a strong, young man working in different harbors in the East. He has big dreams of adventure partly influence by adventure stories. But, Jim is being chased by the reputation of something in his past, and tries to run away from the memory as he travels to different places. In the beginning you see who he is, his desire for adventure, and get a hint about the important thing that happened that will impact his future. As we see him with other people, the problems that surround courage and his good name begin, preparing us for tough times coming ahead. **
Lord Jim
By Joseph Conrad
** A young man's dreams of heroism are crushed by a single act of cowardice, forcing him on a journey seeking redemption in the far reaches of the East.
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About the AuthorJoseph Conrad was a Polish-British novelist and story writer. He is regarded as one of the greatest writers in the English language and although he did not speak English fluently until his twenties, he became a master prose stylist who brought a non-English sensibility into English literature. He wrote novels and stories, many in nautical settings that depict crises of human individuality in the midst of what he saw as an indifferent, inscrutable and amoral world.
Joseph Conrad was a Polish-British novelist and story writer. He is regarded as one of the greatest writers in the English language and although he did not speak English fluently until his twenties, he became a master prose stylist who brought a non-English sensibility into English literature. He wrote novels and stories, many in nautical settings that depict crises of human individuality in the midst of what he saw as an indifferent, inscrutable and amoral world.
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