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Lord Jim
novel by Conrad
Lord Jim, novel by Joseph Conrad, published in 1900. The work, originally intended as a short story, grew to a full-length novel as Conrad explored in great depth the perplexing, ambiguous problem of lost honour and guilt, expiation and heroism.
The title character is a man haunted by guilt over an act of cowardice. He becomes an agent at an isolated East Indian trading post. There his feelings of inadequacy and responsibility are played out to their logical and inevitable end.
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