| Lord Jim Contributor(s): Conrad, Joseph (Author), Moser, Thomas C. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0393963357 ISBN-13: 9780393963359 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company OUR PRICE: $28.03 Product Type: Paperback Published: January 1996 Annotation: Lord Jim (1900): Jim is one of Conrad's most complex creations, and Conrad explores, along the vast horizon of this gorgeous novel, the phenomena of shame, guilt, retribution -- and redemption. How right it is for our times! |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 95001667 |
| Series: Norton Critical Editions |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 5.17" W x 8.33" (1.19 lbs) 528 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Moser, Thomas C.: - 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. |