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Lord Jim
by Joseph Conrad
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near fine/None
- Seller
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Denver, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
Franklin Library, 1977. Hardcover. Near fine/None. Illustrated by H. Tom Hall. Part of The 100 Greatest Books of All Time collection. Full leather bound with gilt accents on boards and spine, all three edges gilt, silk endpapers and reading ribbon. Firm binding and all pages are clean and unmarked. Tiny spots of rubbing along bottom board edges and light dust soiling to endpapers, else fine and no other signs of shelf wear.
Synopsis
Joseph Conrad’s Lord Jim follows the events that determine the fate of Jim, a young British seaman. Jim becomes first mate on the Patna, a ship full of pilgrims travelling to Mecca for the hajj. When the ship begins taking in water and disaster is sure to follow, Jim joins his captain and other crewmembers in abandoning the ship and its passengers. The crew is saved by a French ship a few days later and soon learns that the Patna and its passengers were also rescued. The crew’s reprehensible actions are exposed. As a trial ensues, Jim must come to terms with his past. Enter Marlow, sea captain and narrator of Lord Jim as well as three of Conrad’s other works (Heart of Darkness, Youth, and Chance). In spite of Jim’s moral unsoundness, Marlow befriends him during the trial and learns the full story of the Patna, which he relates to the reader. The primary event of Lord Jim may have been based in part on an actual abandonment of a ship. On July 17, 1880, S.S. Jeddah sailed for Penang and Jeddah from Singapore with 778 men, 147 women, and 67 children on board. When the vessel began to leak, the crew abandoned the passengers, who were also travelling to Mecca for the hajj. On August 8, 1880, a French steamship found Jeddah, rescuing all of the pilgrims. An official inquiry followed, as it does in the novel. Lord Jim is ranked 85th on Modern Library’s “100 Best” English-language novels of the 20th century. The novel has been adapted for film twice: Lord Jim (1925), directed by Victor Fleming, and Lord Jim (1965), directed by Richard Brooks and starring Peter O'Toole.
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- Bookseller
- Sparrow's Bookshop
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 07773
- Title
- Lord Jim
- Author
- Joseph Conrad
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near fine
- Jacket Condition
- None
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Franklin Library
- Date Published
- 1977
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Glossary
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
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