Lord Jim, written by Joseph Conrad and published in 1900, is a powerful tale of guilt and redemption. It follows Jim, an idealistic young English seaman whose dreams of heroism collapse when he abandons the Patna, a ship carrying hundreds of pilgrims, believing it is sinking. Stripped of his certificate and consumed by shame, he wanders until reaching Patusan, a remote Malay settlement, where he earns deep respect as "Tuan Jim" and finds a measure of redemption. When the treacherous son of a bandit he once spared kills his close friend, Jim accepts death with quiet dignity, finally attaining the moral courage he had always sought.
