Like all stories by Joseph Conrad, 'Lord Jim' revolves around the sea, its radiant vastness, and the people who traverse it. Jim's mistake aboard the Patna haunts him and shakes his entire identity. He must flee from himself, from reality, and from the humiliations of others. Only on a hidden island, far from everything he is, does he manage to transcend himself. 'Lord Jim' was published in the same year as Freud's 'The Interpretation of Dreams' and was Thomas Mann's favorite book; it became famous and was often adapted into films. The new translation by the award-winning Manfred Allié highlights the elegance and passion of the language, its profound modernity, and allows Conrad's prose to shine.