内容简介
Firstpublishedin1900,LordJimestablishedConradasoneofthegreatstorytellersofthetwentiethcentury.SetintheMalayArchipelago,thenovelnotonlyprovidesagrippingaccountofmaritimeadventureandromance,butalsoanexotictaleoftheEast.Itsthemesalsochallengetheconventionsofnineteenth-centuryadventurefiction,confirmingConrad’splaceinliteratureasoneofthefirst‘modernists’ofEnglishletters.LordJimexploresthedilemmasofconscience,ofmoralisolation,ofloyaltyandbetrayalconfrontingasensitiveindividualwhoseromanticquestforanhonourableidealaretestedtothelimit.Inthisnovel,Conraddrawsonhisexperienceasaseaman,toexperimentradicallywiththepresentationofhumanfrailtyanddoubtinthemodernworld.