Lord Jim : One Split-Second Decision, a Lifetime Spent Running From It
In one terrified instant, ship's officer Jim abandons a sinking vessel full of passengers he believes are already doomed — and survives to find out they weren't. Stripped of his license and his name in every port that knows the story, he flees east to a remote trading post for one last chance to become the man he always believed he was.Told through the eyes of a narrator piecing the story together secondhand, Lord Jim is Conrad's masterwork on honor, guilt, and the impossible standard of being brave exactly once, at exactly the right moment. A genuine classic of moral tension that still asks the question no reader can answer easily: what would you have done?
In one terrified instant, ship's officer Jim abandons a sinking vessel full of passengers he believes are already doomed — and survives to find out they weren't. Stripped of his license and his name in every port that knows the story, he flees east to a remote trading post for one last chance to become the man he always believed he was.Told through the eyes of a narrator piecing the story together secondhand, Lord Jim is Conrad's masterwork on honor, guilt, and the impossible standard of being brave exactly once, at exactly the right moment. A genuine classic of moral tension that still asks the question no reader can answer easily: what would you have done?
Empieza este libro hoy por 0 €
Disfruta de acceso completo a todos los libros de la app durante el periodo de prueba
Nacido en Ucrania de padres polacos, se nacionalizó inglés en 1886. Después de un largo período como marinero, empezó a escribir novelas y relatos. Su experiencia en alta mar se pone de manifiesto en muchas de sus páginas. Entre sus obras más famosas cabe destacar Lord Jim (1900), El corazón de las tinieblas (1902), Nostromo (1904) y El agente secreto (1907).
