Lord Jim
Record details
- ISBN: 9781433248481 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)
- ISBN: 1433248484 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)
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Physical Description:
electronic
electronic resource
remote - Publisher: [Ashland, Or.] : Blackstone Audio, [2008]
Content descriptions
General Note: | Downloadable audio file. Title from: Title details screen. Unabridged. Duration: 13:45:38. |
Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Frederick Davidson. |
System Details Note: | Requires OverDrive Media Console Requires OverDrive Media Console (file size: 197794 KB). Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Subject: | Merchant marine -- Officers -- Fiction British -- Indonesia -- Fiction Cowardice -- Fiction Indonesia -- Fiction Atonement -- Fiction |
Genre: | DOWNLOADABLE AUDIOBOOK. Audiobooks. |
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This is a novel about a man's lifelong efforts to atone for an act of instinctive cowardice. Young Jim, chief mate of the Patna, dreams of being a hero. When the Patna threatens to sink and the cowardly officers decide to save their own skins and escape in the few lifeboats, Jim despises them. But at the last moment, dazed by horror and confusion, he joins them, deserting the 800 Muslim passengers to apparent death.Tormented by this act of cowardice and desertion, Jim flees to the West. Living among the natives in Patusan, a remote trading post in the jungle, he is able to cease sacrificing himself on the altar of conscience. When he defends Patusan against the evil "Gentleman Brown," his efforts create order and well-being, thereby winning the respect and affection of the people for whom he becomes Tuan, or Lord Jim.