Lord Jim
Autor Joseph ConradPaperback – sep 2013
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9788363035297
ISBN-10: 8363035297
Pagini: 100
Dimensiuni: 127 x 203 x 6 mm
Greutate: 0.12 kg
Editura: Azymut Ltd
ISBN-10: 8363035297
Pagini: 100
Dimensiuni: 127 x 203 x 6 mm
Greutate: 0.12 kg
Editura: Azymut Ltd
Notă biografică
Joseph Conrad (1857-1924), born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, was a Polish-born British novelist and short-story writer whose work became central to modern English literature. Before becoming a writer, Conrad spent many years at sea, eventually serving as a merchant-marine captain; that experience gave his fiction its distinctive knowledge of ships, ports, command, isolation, imperial trade, and the moral pressure of life beyond ordinary social protections. Britannica identifies Conrad as a Polish-born English novelist and short-story writer whose major works include Lord Jim, Nostromo, The Secret Agent, and "Heart of Darkness."Conrad's fiction is often concerned with men under extreme pressure: sailors, traders, political exiles, conspirators, colonial agents, and isolated figures forced to discover what they are when institutions, reputations, and illusions fail. His prose joins maritime realism with psychological depth, moral ambiguity, and early modernist experimentation. Works such as Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, Nostromo, Typhoon, The Secret Agent, and The Shadow-Line helped reshape the English novel and short fiction in the early twentieth century.End of the Tether, first published in 1902, draws directly on Conrad's maritime world while moving beyond adventure into tragedy. In Captain Whalley, Conrad created one of his most moving portraits of age, loyalty, pride, and sacrifice: a professional seaman trying to preserve usefulness and honour in a world that has already begun to take both from him.