Lord Jim
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“There is a weird power in a spoken word. And a word carries far—very far—deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.” — Joseph Conrad In the heart of the sea and the depths of the human soul lies the story of Lord Jim—a young seaman whose one act of cowardice shadows his every step. Haunted by a moment of failure, Jim flees from judgment and drifts from port to port, searching for redemption in a remote Eastern outpost. But can honour ever be reclaimed once it is lost? A gripping narrative of guilt, courage, and moral reckoning, Lord Jim explores the inner landscape of a man torn between his past and the hope of becoming the hero he once imagined himself to be.

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Lord Jim

Joseph Conrad
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A faithful, unabridged modern-English edition by The Library of Alexandria — carefully rendered for today's reader and verified paragraph-by-paragraph against the public-domain source. Available as eBook, audiobook, paperback, hardcover, and large print.

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