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Lord Jim Joseph Conrad

Lord Jim By Joseph Conrad

Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad


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This Norton Critical Edition provides the most authoritative text of Lord Jim yet published; it is based on the definitive third English edition, collated with the periodical version that appeared in Blackwood's Magazine and with the first English edition.

Lord Jim Summary

Lord Jim: A Norton Critical Edition by Joseph Conrad

All discrepancies have been checked against the second English edition and the second American edition; the resulting Textual Notes include over 500 substantive changes.

The text is thoroughly annotated, and the editor has added a Glossary of Eastern and Nautical Terms.

Backgrounds includes the complete text of Tuan Jim.

Sources is a special section edited for this Norton Critical Edition by Dr. Norman Sherry of the University of Liverpool, presenting his discoveries about the real-life counterpart of Lord Jim, the incidents described in the novel, and life in the Dutch East Indies in the nineteenth century. Dr. Sherry is the author of Conrad's Eastern World.

Among the perspectives presented in Criticism are those of Hugh Clifford, Albert J. Guerard, Ian Watt, Fredric Jameson, J. Hillis Miller, Edward Said, Philip M. Weinstein, Paul B. Armstrong, Marianne DeKoven, and Daphana Erdinast-Vulcan.

About Joseph Conrad

Thomas C. Moser was Professor of English at Stanford University. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard. In addition to publishing widely in professional journals, Professor Moser wrote Joseph Conrad: Achievement and Decline, and edited Wuthering Heights: Text, Sources, Criticism.

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GOR004062788
9780393963359
0393963357
Lord Jim: A Norton Critical Edition by Joseph Conrad
Used - Very Good
Paperback
WW Norton & Co
19960301
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