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Lord Jim / compiled by the Academic Data and Program Services of Princeton University Computing Center

 
dc.contributor Sperberg-McQueen, Michael Computer Centre 135 U Illinois at Chicago
dc.contributor.author Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924
dc.date.accessioned 2018-07-27
dc.date.accessioned 2019-07-04T09:48:52Z
dc.date.available 2019-07-04T09:48:52Z
dc.date.created 1899
dc.date.issued 1976-01-01
dc.identifier ota:0627
dc.identifier.citation http://purl.ox.ac.uk/ota/0627
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12024/0627
dc.description.abstract In English Title from University of Oxford Text Archive records Signet classic ; CD51
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dc.publisher University of Oxford
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dc.subject.lcsh Novels -- Great Britain -- 20th century
dc.subject.other Novels
dc.title Lord Jim / compiled by the Academic Data and Program Services of Princeton University Computing Center
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<Chapter 1> !Author's !Note When this novel first appeared in book form a notion got about that I had been bolted away with. Some reviewers maintained that the work starting as a short story had got beyond the writer's control. One or two discovered internal evidence of the fact, which seemed to amuse them. They pointed out the limitations of the narrative form. They argued that no man could have been expected to talk all that time, and other men to listen so long. It was not, they said, very credible. After thinking it over for something like sixteen years I am not so sure about that. Men have been known, both in the tropics and in the temperate zone, to sit up half the night "swapping yarns." This, however, is but one yarn, yet with interruptions affording some measure of relief; and in regard to the listeners' endurance, the postulate must be accepted that the story !was interesting. It is the necessary preliminary assumption. If I hadn't believed that it !was intere . . .

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