1. English Literature in the Twentieth century
... novels, Conrad uses his sea experiences in remote places as a means of exploring human character and English codes of honour and loyalty in particular. His situations are often extreme and test human beings to their limits. Lord Jim (1900) is the story of a young Englishman who panics and deserts his ship. Lord Jim later dies an honourable death but not before ... most explicitly political novels are Nostromo (1904), The Secret Agent (1907), and Under Western Eyes (1911). Throughout his fiction he depicts human isolation, the conflict between different parts of one's personality and ext...
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