Lord Jim - Joseph Conrad - Books - Independently Published - 9798720546151 - March 21, 2021
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Lord Jim

After thinking it over for something like sixteen years, I am not so sure about that. Men have been known, both in the tropics and in the temperate zone, to sit up half the night 'swapping yarns'. This, however, is but one yarn, yet with interruptions affording some measure of relief; and in regard to the listeners' endurance, the postulate must be accepted that the story was interesting. It is the necessary preliminary assumption. If I hadn't believed that it was interesting I could never have begun to write it. As to the mere physical possibility we all know that some speeches in Parliament have taken nearer six than three hours in delivery; whereas all that part of the book which is Marlow's narrative can be read through aloud, I should say, in less than three hours. Besides-though I have kept strictly all such insignificant details out of the tale-we may presume that there must have been refreshments on that night, a glass of mineral water of some sort to help the narrator on.

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released March 21, 2021
ISBN13 9798720546151
Publishers Independently Published
Pages 202
Dimensions 140 × 216 × 12 mm   ·   263 g
Language English  

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