Lord Jim

Vintage Penguin. #529. Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad, in its Penguin edition, follows a young seaman whose moment of panic during a shipboard crisis leaves him haunted by guilt and desperate for redemption. Jim’s flight from disgrace takes him across the seas to remote communities where he tries to rebuild his honour, yet his idealism and longing for a heroic identity continually collide with reality. Conrad explores courage, failure and the burden of self-judgment with his characteristic psychological depth, showing how one defining act can shape a life. The novel becomes a searching study of responsibility and the fragile nature of integrity.