-A compelling meditation on identity, guilt and lost honour- An English boy in a simple town has dreams bigger than the outdoors and embarks at an early age into the sailor's life. The waters he travels reward him with the ability to explore the human spirit, while Joseph Conrad launches the story into both an exercise of his technical prowess and a delicately crafted picture of a character who reaches the status of a literary hero. Rich, moving and delicately crafted, Lord Jim is a compelling meditation on identity, guilt and lost honour. Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) was a Polish-British writer regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language.