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Lord Jim

by Joseph Conrad · 1900

Literary Fiction · ranked #296 in category

This compact novel, completed in 1900, as with so many of the great novels of the time, is at its baseline a book of the sea. An English boy in a simple town has dreams bigger than the outdoors and em

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The verdict

Category
Literary Fiction
First published
1900 · 1900s
Author
Joseph Conrad
Standing
Recommended

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