Lord Jim

Joseph Conrad

Broadview Press, Nov 7, 2000 - Fiction - 455 pages

One of Joseph Conrad's greatest novels, Lord Jim brilliantly combines adventure and analysis. Haunted by the memory of a moment of lost nerve during a disastrous voyage, Jim submits to condemnation by a Court of Inquiry. In the wake of his disgrace he travels to the exotic region of Patusan, and as the agent at this remote trading post comes to be revered as 'Tuan Jim.' Here he finds a measure of serenity and respect within himself. However, when a gang of thieves arrives on the island, the memory of his earlier disgrace comes again to the fore, and his relationship with the people of the island is jeopardized. This new Broadview edition is based on the first British edition of 1900, which provides the historical basis for the accompanying critical and contextual discussions. The appendices include a wide variety of Conrad's source material, documents concerning the scandal of the Jeddah, along with other materials such as a substantial selection of early critical comments.

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Contents

• Acknowledgements: 6
• Introduction: 7
• A Note on the Text and on Editorial Procedures: 23
• A Brief Chronology: 28
• Chronology of Events in Lord Jim: 33
• Map: 34
• Conrads Authors Note 1917: 373
• Comments by Conrad: 376
• Contemporaneous Reviews: 378
• Sources and Contexts 1James Brooke the White Rajah of Sarawak: 385
• Sources and Contexts 2 The Jeddah Scandal: 403
• Sources and Contexts 3 McNairs Perak and the Malays: 422
• Sources and Contexts 5 The Douro the Cutty Sark and the Rev William Hazlitt: 428
• Comments on Imperialism and Colonialism: 433
• Select Bibliography: 452

About the author

Cedric Watts is a professor in the English Department at the University of Sussex, and the internationally-renowned author of numerous critical and scholarly books, including Joseph Conrad: A Literary Life and A preface to Conrad. He has also edited Jude the Obscure for the Broadview Literary Texts series.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Lord Jim; Broadview Editions Series; Broadview literary texts; Literary Texts Series
• Author: Joseph Conrad
• Editor: Cedric Watts
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Broadview Press, 2000
• ISBN: 1551111721, 9781551111728
• Length: 455 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Literary