In his introduction and notes to this new edition Jacques Berthoud explores the social and cultural dynamics that inform the novel.ĪBOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Set in the context of social change and colonial expansion in late Victorian England, it embodies in Jim the values and the turmoil of a fading empire. Lord Jim is one of the most profound and rewarding psychological novels in English. There he achieves a kind of peace, but his courage is put to the test once more. An older man, Marlow, befriends Jim, and helps to establish him in Patusan, a remote Malay settlement. His life is blighted: an isolated scandal assumes horrifying proportions. Lord Jim tells the story of a young, idealistic Englishman - 'as unflinching as a hero in a book' - who is disgraced by a single act of cowardice while serving as an officer on the Patna, a merchant-ship sailing from an Eastern port. He had, of course, another name, but he was anxious that it should not be pronounced.' 'To the white men in the waterside business and to the captain of ships he was just Jim - nothing more. Oxford Research Encyclopedias: Global Public Health.The European Society of Cardiology Series. Oxford Commentaries on International Law.
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