Read this if you…
- loved Heart of Darkness
- can handle difficult prose (a little too tough for my liking)
- like the topics of cowardice/guilt
Skip this if you…
- haven't read heart of darkness (start there)
- want a fast moving plot. lots of brooding
The 
Take
Awesome unique moral questions about knowing you didn’t act virtuous and how to face that and the wretched ambiguity around that.But super hard to understand what’s going on sentence to sentence and chapter to chapter. Needed online summaries to help me
Depicted in Art
The cover of the first UK book edition of Lord Jim, published by William Blackwood & Sons in Edinburgh, pale green cloth with black and gilt lettering.
1900
Studio portrait of Joseph Conrad, bearded, in three-quarter profile, taken five years after Heart of Darkness was published.
George Charles Beresford, 1904
Production still of Percy Marmont as Jim in Victor Fleming's 1925 silent adaptation, from the Exhibitors Herald.
1925
Original Paramount theatrical poster for Victor Fleming's 1925 silent film adaptation of Lord Jim.
1925
Recommended Editions
Penguin Classics
2007
Cedric Watts's Penguin runs a fine introduction on Conrad's nested narrators and leaves the reading text uncluttered. The natural first pass through the book.
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Notable Quotes
In the destructive element immerse.
- Orson Welles, American filmmaker & actor, 1915–1985: "I think I'm made for Conrad."
- Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine writer & poet, 1899–1986: "For me the foremost novelist is Joseph Conrad."
- William Faulkner, American novelist, Nobel laureate, 1897–1962: "The books I read are the ones I knew and loved when I was a young man … the Old Testament, Dickens, Conrad, Cervantes."
- Andrew McCarthy, actor, travel writer, 1962-: "Nobody gets between thoughts and paints pictures like Conrad. An amazing book from the master."
- Virginia Woolf, English novelist & critic, 1882–1941: "Conrad alone was able to live that double life, for Conrad was compound of two men."