Lord Jim

De: Joseph Conrad

Narrado por: Ric Jerrom

Jim, the first mate aboard a small steamer named the Patna, travels from port to port in the Pacific Ocean. When the ship hits floating wreckage, Jim and the crew are forced to abandon it, leaving hundreds of ethnic travelers onboard. However, Jim's reprehensible actions are soon discovered by the court, and he is compelled to face his guilt and redeem himself - a journey that leads him to a remote exotic location where he is revered as the Lord, "Tuan Jim".

Through beautifully evocative descriptions and ponderous philosophical prose, Conrad delivers a powerful novel about one man's struggle to reconcile who he would like to be with who he actually is.

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Of Cowardice and Compassion

Of Cowardice and Compassion

#lordjim is my fourth #josephconrad novel, having read #thesecretagent by recommendation and #nostromo #heartofdarkness and, now Lord Jim due to their inclusion on the list of the #modernlibrarytop100novels . Of course, having watched #apocalysenow repeatedly, Heart Of Darkness had always been an objective as it was the influence of the screenplay by #francisfordcoppola .

Lord Jim tells the story of a young merchant naval officer aboard of the Crew of a pilgrim Ship en route to Mecca that begins to take on water. Joining his Crew members who abandoned ship, leaving the hundreds of passengers to their own fate, their unexpected rescue and Jim's inability to mount a successful defense of his actions finds him stripped of his sailing certificates and resigned to serving as a Ship's chandler, bouncing from Port to Port as his shameful abandonment and public drubbing always catches up with him. Recurring Conrad character #charlesmarlow , who had also served as the narrator of Heart of Darkness returns to try to help Jim find someplace where he can escape the shame that follows him. This leads him to serving at an extremely remote upriver trading post where he seems to come into this own right, at least until the pirates arrive.

it is an excellent tale and the #audible reader effectively told the story though I would have preferred a bit more dash in the reading. Either way, it's an excellent addition to the library and a fascinating moral story when one's hope to bring peace and compassion to a situation can introduce tragedy and accusations of cowardice that always stalk you.
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Extravagant wording from another age.

Give me Kipling. This book is one long pomposity of self importance. It is worth at least a partial hearing if for no other reason then as a peep hole into the other side of Kipling's world. "Plain Tails From The Hills" is timeless.

Wow! This Blew My Mind.

This was yet another incredible story written in breathtaking prose by Joseph Conrad and masterfully narrated by Ric Jerrom. This one hit me hard because Conrad is so brilliant in his description of the characters and what they felt and thought about themselves and about others that you can't help but feel and think like Jim observing himself (as you observe yourself) and then switch roles and think and feel like, say, Marlow (yes, the same Marlow from The Heart of Darkness) judging Jim. You get to know these characters quickly and then gradually become them, seeing everything from their point of view. The superb narration by Ric Jerrom only facilitated this process. Too bad that this, as far as I know, is the only book of Conrad that he has narrated.

As for the story and what it is about ... well, you can read the Audible blurb for that which, in my opinion, says too much. Suffice it to say that this is a story of self-discovery, judgment and redemption, as one sees himself and as others see him.

This was a GREAT experience.

awful narration, unfortunately

this is a great book, however, it has a bad narration. i had to return it, the reading was just strange