Lord Jim is a novel by Joseph Conrad about a seaman named Jim who, with the rest of the crew of the Patna, abandon the pilgrims on the ship as it begins to sink. After the rest of the crew escapes, Jim is punished for his desertion, scrounges for work before ending up an agent in Putusan, a small island in the South Pacific. He is revered for saving the Bugis people of the island and, in the end, sacrifices his life to the enemy Brown.
In 1909 ten years after the publication of Heart of Darkness except for the revision of his first story The Black Mate Joseph Conrad had not written a short work since the spring of 1907 Without warning he received a visit from Captain C M Marris recently returned from the Malay Seas As Conrad explained to Pinker It was like the raising of a lot of dead dead to me because most of them live out there and even read my books and wonder who the devil has been around taking notes My visitor told me
The book Heart of Darkness written by Joseph Conrad is a masterpiece in literature Conrad obtained many of his perspectives for his work from hands on experience and also from his harsh background and childhood When Conrad was still a child his father was exiled to Siberia because of suspicions on plotting against the Russian government After his mother died Conrads father sent him to his mothers brother in Krakow for education purposes This was the last time Conrad ever saw his father After Co