![]() ![]() It is said that its author meant it to be a brief narrative, but that it took itself into its own hands, and swept its writer with it into a profound study of a psychic phenomenon. Conrad's surpassingly beautiful ''Youth,'' peerless among short stories, do we feel all this in ''Lord Jim,'' but ''Lord Jim'' is much more We know for ourselves ''the magic monotony of existence between sky and water'' we feel all the prosaic exaction of the life, and, at the same time, we are fascinated and held by the mysterious, dominating spirit At once there comes ''so loud a calling of the sea'' that we embark with the writer upon the great adventure of the deep. ![]() Conrad's books we are aware of none of this. Other writers have told stirring tales of those ''that do business in great waters,'' and have given vivid and picturesque descriptions of the ocean in its storms and The New York Times: Book Review Search Articleĭecember 1, 1900: 'Lord Jim' by Joseph Conrad ![]()
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