Lord Jim is a classic story of one man\'s tragic failure and eventual redemption, told under the circumstances of high adventure at the margins of the known world which made Conrad\'s work so immediately popular.
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Reluctantly leaving the merchant service, he settled in England and completed his first novel, Almayer\'s Folly, already begun at sea.
In 1890 he contracted to become captain of a Congo River steamer, but the six months he spent in Africa led only to disillusionment and ill health; this episode would become the basis for Conrad\'s masterpiece, Heart of Darkness.
Indies, smuggled guns to Spanish rebels, ran into debt, and bungled a suicide attempt Then in the British merchant navy, he rose to first mate and finally to captain, sailing to Australia and Borneo and surviving at least one shipwreck.
In the French merchant marine, he sailed to the West.
The sea was Conrad\'s love and career for the next twenty years.
Orphaned at eleven, Conrad attended school for a few years in Cracow, He soon concluded, however, that there was no future for a Pole in occupied Poland, and at sixteen he left his ancestral home forever.
His parents were members of the landed gentry, but as ardent Polish patriots, the suffered considerably for their political views. (Book Jacket Status: Not Jacketed) About the Author: Joseph Conrad, christened Josef Teodor Konrad, Nalecz Korzeniowski, was born on December 3, 1857, in a part of Russia that had once belonged to Poland.
He is also the editor of Conrad: The Critical Heritage, and the official biographer of Graham Greene.
With An Introduction By Norman Sherry An expert on the works of Joseph Conrad, Professor Norman Sherry is the author of Conrad\'s Eastern World, Conrad\'s Western World and Conrad and His World.
But it is also the book in which its author, through a brilliant adaptation of his stylistic apparatus to his obsessive moral, psychological and political concerns, laid the groundwork for the modern novel as we know it.
Lord Jim is a classic story of one man\'s tragic failure and eventual redemption, told under the circumstances of high adventure at the margins of the known world which made Conrad\'s work so immediately popular
