Lord Jim: A Tale

✍ Scribed by Joseph Conrad

• Book ID: 100064084
• Publisher: J.M. Dent
• Year: 1961
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 232 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 1440064393

✦ Synopsis

Product Description

LORD JIM. CHAPTER I. He was an inch, perhaps two, under six feet, powerfully built, and he advanced straight at you with a slight stoop of the shoulders, head forward, and a fixed from-under stare which made you think of a charging bull. His voice was deep, loud, and his manner displayed a kind of dogged self-assertion which had nothing aggressive in it. It seemed a necessity, and it was directed apparently as much at himself as at anybody else. " He was spotlessly neat, apparelled in immaculate white from shoes to hat, and in the various Eastern ports where he got his living as ship-chandler's water-clerk he was very popular. A water-clerk need not pass an examination in anything under the sun, but he must have Ability in the abstract and demonstrate it practically. His work consists in racing under sail, steam, or oars against other water-clerks for any ship about to anchor, greeting her captain cheerily, forcing upon A i Calif - Digit ^ d oyhi o oft

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✦ Subjects

A Tale