Lord Jim
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✒ Author | Joseph Conrad |
📖 Pages | 631 |
⏰ Reading time | 22 hours |
💡 Originally published | 1900 |
🌏 Original language | English |
📌 Type | Novels |
📌 Genres | Psychological, Realism |
Table of contents
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CHAPTER 1 | 1 |
CHAPTER 2 | 11 |
CHAPTER 3 | 21 |
CHAPTER 4 | 36 |
CHAPTER 5 | 45 |
CHAPTER 6 | 79 |
CHAPTER 7 | 111 |
CHAPTER 8 | 129 |
CHAPTER 9 | 147 |
CHAPTER 10 | 163 |
CHAPTER 11 | 186 |
CHAPTER 12 | 194 |
CHAPTER 13 | 208 |
CHAPTER 14 | 228 |
CHAPTER 15 | 250 |
CHAPTER 16 | 258 |
CHAPTER 17 | 268 |
CHAPTER 18 | 275 |
CHAPTER 19 | 291 |
CHAPTER 20 | 302 |
CHAPTER 21 | 324 |
CHAPTER 22 | 337 |
CHAPTER 23 | 348 |
CHAPTER 24 | 362 |
CHAPTER 25 | 372 |
CHAPTER 26 | 387 |
CHAPTER 27 | 398 |
CHAPTER 28 | 409 |
CHAPTER 29 | 423 |
CHAPTER 30 | 433 |
CHAPTER 31 | 443 |
CHAPTER 32 | 456 |
CHAPTER 33 | 465 |
CHAPTER 34 | 482 |
CHAPTER 35 | 498 |
CHAPTER 36 | 508 |
CHAPTER 37 | 519 |
CHAPTER 38 | 532 |
CHAPTER 39 | 547 |
CHAPTER 40 | 560 |
CHAPTER 41 | 575 |
CHAPTER 42 | 584 |
CHAPTER 43 | 596 |
CHAPTER 44 | 608 |
CHAPTER 45 | 616 |
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CHAPTER 1
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 him a card — the business card of the ship-chandler — and on his first visit on shore piloting him firmly but without ostentation to a vast, cavern-like shop which is full of things that are eaten and drunk on board ship; where you can get everything to make her seaworthy and beautiful, from a set of chain-hooks for her cable to a book of gold-leaf for the carvings of her stern; and where her commander is received like a brother by a ship-chandler he has never seen before.
There is a cool parlour, easy-chairs, bottles, cigars, writing implements, a copy of harbour regulations, and a warmth of welcome that melts the salt of a three months’ passage out of a seaman’s heart.
The connection thus begun is kept up, as long as the ship remains in harbour, by the daily visits of the water-clerk.
To the captain he is faithful like a friend and attentive like a son, with the patience of Job, the unselfish devotion of a woman, and the jollity of a boon companion.
Later on the bill is sent in.
It is a beautiful and humane occupation.
Therefore good water-clerks are scarce.
When a water-clerk who possesses Ability in the abstract has also the advantage of having been brought up to the sea, he is worth to his employer a lot of money and some humouring.
Jim had always good wages and as much humouring as would have bought the fidelity of a fiend.
Nevertheless, with black ingratitude he would throw up the job suddenly and depart.
To his employers the reasons he gave were obviously inadequate.
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