Annotation Marlow narrates the story of Lord Jim, a promising young man who falls from grace, then attempts to redeem himself in Patusan, a ficti

A captain, unfamiliar with his crew and questioning his own ability, rescues a strange man from the sea.

Set in a jungle village in eastern Borneo during the 1880s, Almayer's Folly recreates the many conflicts - economic, religious, racial, cultural,

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