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03638aam a2200565 i 4500 001 7084E69C214411EEBC7340321FECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230713010558 008 770813s1959 nyua 000 1 eng d 035 $a (OCoLC)3184800 040 $a BTS $b eng $c BTS $d OCLCQ $d UV$ $d OCLCG $d OCLCQ $d WAU $d OCLCQ $d FUG $d OCLCO $d SWW $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d OCLCA $d UKMGB $d OCLCO $d OCLCQ $d SILO 043 $a a-io--- 050 4 $a PR6005.O4 $b L6 1959 082 04 $a 823.912 100 1 $a Conrad, Joseph, $d 1857-1924. 245 10 $a Lord Jim : $b a tale / $c by Joseph Conrad ; with an introduction by Nicholas Monsarrat ; and with color lithographs by Lynd Ward. 260 $a New York : $b Heritage Press, $c ©1959. 300 $a x, [4], 407 pages : $b illustrations (some color) ; $c 24 cm 500 $a Half title. 500 $a Designed by Carl Purington Rollins ... Paper manufactured by Oxford Paper Company, Rumford, Maine ... Binding by Russell-Rutter Company--(cf. Heritage Club Sandglass newsletter, no. IX:24). 500 $a Blue full cloth covered boards with silver stamped spine. 530 $a Also issued online. 520 $a This is the story of a young sailor going from island to island in search of identity in the late 19th century ... The eponymous Jim is a young, good-looking, genial, and naive water-clerk on the Patna, a cargo ship plying Asian waters. He is, we are told, "the kind of fellow you would, on the strength of his looks, leave in charge of the deck." He also harbors romantic fantasies of adventure and heroism--which are promptly scuttled one night when the ship collides with an obstacle and begins to sink. Acting on impulse, Jim jumps overboard and lands in a lifeboat, which happens to be bearing the unscrupulous captain and his cohorts away from the disaster. The Patna, however, manages to stay afloat. The foundering vessel is towed into port--and since the officers have strategically vanished, Jim is left to stand trial for abandoning the ship and its 800 passengers. Stripped of his seaman's license, convinced of his own cowardice, Jim sets out on a tragic and transcendent search for redemption ... --Teri Kief at Amazon.com 650 0 $a Merchant marine $x Officers $v Fiction. 650 0 $a British $z Indonesia $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Cowardice $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Indonesia $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Atonement $v Fiction. 650 6 $a Officiers de la marine marchande $v Romans, nouvelles, etc. 650 6 $a Britanniques $z IndoneÌsie $v Romans, nouvelles, etc. 650 6 $a LaÌcheteÌ $v Romans, nouvelles, etc. 650 7 $a Atonement. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00820671 650 7 $a British. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00839044 650 7 $a Cowardice. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00881978 650 7 $a Merchant marine $x Officers. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01016971 651 7 $a Indonesia. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01209242 655 7 $a Fiction. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01423787 655 7 $a Psychological fiction. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01726481 655 7 $a Psychological fiction. $2 lcgft 700 1 $a Ward, Lynd, $d 1905-1985, $e lithographer. 700 1 $a Monsarrat, Nicholas, $d 1910-1979, $e writer of introduction. 700 1 $a Rollins, Carl Purington, $d 1880-1960, $e book designer. 710 2 $a Heritage Press (New York, N.Y.), $e publisher. 710 2 $a Russell-Rutter Company, $e binder. 710 2 $a Oxford Paper Company, $e papermaker. 776 08 $i Online version: $a Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924. $t Lord Jim. $d New York : Heritage Press, 1959 $w (OCoLC)624440816 941 $a 1 952 $l PLAX964 $d 20240724111314.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=7084E69C214411EEBC7340321FECA4DB 994 $a 92 $b IOHInitiate Another SILO Locator Search