15 Facts About Lord Jim

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

Lord Jim is publicly censured for this action and the novel follows his later attempts at coming to terms with himself and his past and seeking redemption and acceptance.

Recovering from an injury, Lord Jim seeks a position on the Patna, a steamer serving the transport of 800 "pilgrims of an exacting belief" to a port on the Red Sea.

Captain Gustav thinks the ship will quickly sink, and Lord Jim agrees but wants to put the passengers on the few boats before that can happen.

Lord Jim is accepted there but leaves abruptly when an engineer who had abandoned the ship appears to work at the house.

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Lord Jim then finds work as a ship chandler's clerk in ports of the East Indies, always succeeding in the job then leaving abruptly when the memory of the Patna incident catches up with him.

Marlow realises that Lord Jim needs a new situation, something that will take him far away from modern ports and keep him occupied so that he can finally forget his guilt.

Marlow consults his friend Stein, who sees that Lord Jim is a romantic and considers his situation.

Stein offers Lord Jim to be his trade representative or factor in Patusan, a village on a remote island shut off from most commerce, which Lord Jim finds to be exactly what he needs.

Jewel does not believe that Lord Jim will stay, as her father left her mother, and she is not reassured that Marlow or any other outsider will not arrive to take him from her.

Lord Jim tells Brown of a side channel that will bypass most of the defenses, which Brown navigates, stopping briefly to ambush the defenders he finds out of revenge.

Lord Jim is mortified when he receives word of the death of his good friend Waris.

Lord Jim then goes directly to Doramin and in front of the village takes responsibility for the death of his only son.

Opening event in Lord Jim has been speculated by historians to have been based in part on an actual abandonment of a ship.

Inspiration for the character of Lord Jim was the chief mate of the Jeddah, "Austin" Podmore Williams, whose grave was tracked down to Singapore's Bidadari Cemetery by Gavin Young in his book In Search of Conrad.