Lord Jim is a novel by Joseph Conrad originally published as a serial in Blackwood's Magazine from October 1899 to November 1900.

An early and primary event in the story is the abandonment of a passenger ship in distress by its crew, including a young British seaman named Jim.

He is publicly censured for this action and the novel follows his later attempts at coming to terms with himself and his past.
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Joseph Conrad (1857 - 1924) was a Polish-British writer regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language.
Though he did not speak English fluently until his twenties, he was a master prose stylist who brought a non-English sensibility into English literature. (from wikipedia.org)