A young officer abandons a sinking ship full of pilgrims and spends the rest of his life trying to outrun the shame of that one act. Marlow narrates his search for redemption in a remote Malay settlement.
Books that mention Lord Jim (4)
Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami: “I went back to the dorm and stretched out on my bed reading Lord Jim, which I'd borrowed from Nagasawa.”
The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough: “Arthur first noticed her during a teaching period, when she was required to recite a passage from Conrad's Lord Jim using various accents.”
Italo Calvino by Martin McLaughlin: “the description of the ominous calm preceding the storm is indebted to Conrad's depiction there of the tranquil sea and of Lord Jim's feelings of serenity”