Cover of Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

Lord Jim

by Joseph Conrad

526 pages~9 hrs

One moment of fear. A lifetime of redemption.

After a single moment of cowardice shatters his reputation, a young seaman flees to a remote Indonesian island to escape the suffocating shadow of his past. In the dense jungles of Patusan, he fights for a second chance at honor while discovering that the heaviest burden is the memory of who he used to be.

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