Lord Jim, Joseph ConradJim was first mate on the Patna, when the ship and passengers were abandoned by the crew in the Red Sea. Accused of cowardice, Jim immerses himself in work on a remote colonial trading post yet, despite the locals high regard for him, the guilt of the Patna remains.

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Toru finds himself reaching out to others and drawn to a fiercely independent and sexually liberated young woman

Ultimately

In 1920 he married Zelda Sayre

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