![]() Marlow, the recurring storyteller in a number of Conrad's novels, pieces together the story of his subject from a variety of sources. The novel is distinctive for its narrative style. Lord Jim is one of Conrad's best loved renditions. The work is laden with the ambiguities from which Conrad himself seemed to draw the only possibility of truth. Known for his visionary yet dark, poetic prose style, Conrad negotiated among his international nautical settings with detailed views of individual quandaries, especially moral ones. Typical of Conrad's work, Lord Jim emerges from real events to take on a life of its own. (The second half of the novel takes place there, in the village of Patusan on the island of Borneo.) ![]() Conrad had spent much of the time between 18 in the area that is now Indonesia. ![]() Lord Jim, published in 1900, initially began as a short story based on a real incident involving a steamship called Jeddah, which carried Muslim pilgrims from Singapore to Mecca. ![]()
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