Lord Jimby Joseph Conrad | |
| List(s): | "Carp 500" "Racine Library List" |
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| Category: |
"Fiction - General" |
| Pages: | 271 |
| Year of Publication: | 1900 |
| Date Read: | 03/18/1992 |
| Notes: | Jim is a young, good-looking, genial, and naive water-clerk on the Patna, a cargo ship plying Asian waters. He harbors romantic fantasies of adventure and heroism — which are promptly scuttled one night when the ship collides with an obstacle and begins to sink. Acting on impulse, Jim jumps overboard and lands in a lifeboat, which happens to be bearing the unscrupulous captain and his cohorts away from the disaster. The Patna, however, manages to stay afloat. The foundering vessel is towed into port — and since the officers have strategically vanished, Jim is left to stand trial for abandoning the ship and its 800 passengers. |
| My Rating: | 4 |