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Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1900. Very good plus.. First edition of this nautical-psychological journal, in which the antihero travels far and wide in pursuit of anonymity. On a quest to forget about his cowardly actions during a crisis at sea, Jim lands at a remote port in the South Seas, where he becomes a community leader but eventually sacrifices his life for moral redemption. Many of Conrad's works, still steeped in a white European perspective, nevertheless grapple with race and colonialism in a more skeptical way than most of his white contemporaries, and LORD JIM is no exception. Historian Elleke Boehmer contrasts LORD JIM to Rudyard Kipling's KIM, published a year later, noting that Conrad voices deep concern about British colonialism while Kipling's support of the Empire shows through in his narrative; LORD JIM, she notes, "can be seen as a defining tale of the doubt which threatened the project of European expansion" (59). 7.5'' x 5''. Original…

Lord Jim is a novel by Joseph Conrad, originally published as a serial in Blackwood's Magazine from October 1899 to November 1900. It explores the life of a young British seaman who gets involved in a scandal and is tormented by guilt and atonement. The novel is notable for its psychological depth and complex narrative structure.