Lord Jim
| dc.contributor | Oxford Text Archive |
| dc.contributor.author | Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924 |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-06-14 |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2021-06-09T09:17:19Z |
| dc.date.available | 2021-06-09T09:17:19Z |
| dc.date.created | 1899 |
| dc.date.issued | 1993-01-24 |
| dc.identifier | ota:3048 |
| dc.identifier.citation | http://purl.ox.ac.uk/ota/3048 |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12024/3048 |
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| dc.language | English |
| dc.language.iso | eng |
| dc.publisher | University of Oxford |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Oxford Text Archive Core Collection |
| dc.relation.replaces | http://purl.ox.ac.uk/ota/1824 |
| dc.rights | Distributed by the University of Oxford under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ |
| dc.rights.label | PUB |
| dc.subject.lcsh | British -- Indonesia -- Fiction |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Seafaring life -- Indonesia -- Fiction |
| dc.title | Lord Jim |
| dc.type | Text |
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Lord Jim
by
Joseph Conrad
1900
Preface
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
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interesting. It is the necessary preliminary assumption. If I hadn't believed that it
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