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Lord Jim tells the story of a young, idealistic Englishman--"as unflinching as a hero in a book"--who is disgraced by a single act of cowardice while serving as an officer on the Patna, a merchant-ship sailing from an eastern port. His life is ruined: an isolated scandal has assumed horrifying propoContinue
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Martinbenedick said on Jun 1, 2007 | 1 feedback
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Al termine della lettura di questo grande romanzo una domanda continua ad aleggiare nella testa del lettore: chi è Lord Jim. Un idealista perso dietro a romantiche idee di onore e lealtà che comunque ne sostanziano l'unicità della personalità o un semplice comune essere umano che non riesce a venire ... (continue)
Rainyman99 said on Oct 20, 2011 about the Others edition | Add your feedback
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To the white men in the waterside business and to the captain of ships he was just Jim - nothing more. He had, of course, another name, but he was anxious that it should not be pronounced.' Lord Jim tells the story of a young, idealistic Englishman - 'as unflinching as a hero in a book' - who is dis ... (continue)
Brian Gilberthorpe said on Jul 18, 2011 | Add your feedback
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rabbit said on Feb 22, 2011 about the Others edition | Add your feedback
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Annalisa said on Nov 15, 2010 about the Others edition | Add your feedback
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I think it has been the most beautiful novel I ever read. The first time I read it when I was 10-11 years old, translated in Italian, after the movie with Peter O'Toole. After nearly half a century it still bears to me the teaching to the courage of living growing an ethic, despite all. I got at the ... (continue)
Bloknotes said on Dec 31, 2009 | Add your feedback
Book Details
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- English Books
- Paperback 390 Pages
- Edition: New
- ISBN-10: 0192840673
- ISBN-13: 9780192840677
- Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
- Pub date: Feb 14, 2003
- Dimensions: 1290 mm x 839 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
- Also available as: Mass Market Paperback, Hardcover, Audio CD, Audio Cassette, Library Binding, Unbound, Others and eBook
- In other languages: other languages
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The book on which I discovered that reading the original and its translation makes for two different books. I lost my faith in translation, then, but I acquired a greater one in Language. The more so, seeing that Conrad was a Pole!
And then, Jim is such a vivid, complex, flawed, endearing char ... (continue)
The book on which I discovered that reading the original and its translation makes for two different books. I lost my faith in translation, then, but I acquired a greater one in Language. The more so, seeing that Conrad was a Pole!
And then, Jim is such a vivid, complex, flawed, endearing character! You cannot but care deeply for him. Add to this a great narrating voice, wonderful descriptions and a plot that might have been over-melodramatic in lesser hands, but just comes out as painfully true from Conrad's magic pen... Quite a masterpiece.
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