Lord Jim

Joseph Conrad

⏱ 8 minModernist classic

A young officer abandons a sinking pilgrim ship in a moment of panic, and spends his life trying to outrun that one act of cowardice. Conrad's haunting study of honour, guilt and a second chance in the jungle.

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