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Violence
Some
A maritime disaster; some colonial violence; the climax involves death
Language
Barely any
Victorian literary prose; no profanity
Sexual Content
Barely any
No sexual content
Substance Use
Barely any
None
Emotional Intensity
A lot
The sustained psychological weight of living with a moment of failure that defined you; the impossibility of truly escaping yourself
What this book is about
Jim, a young British officer, makes an impulsive decision in a moment of crisis—abandoning a ship full of passengers—and spends the rest of his life trying to redeem the moment. Joseph Conrad's moral study of courage, cowardice, and the stories we tell ourselves is one of the great novels of psychological self-examination.
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