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Lord Jim is referenced in the final section of Herman Wouk's 1951 novel The Caine Mutiny as the captain of the Caine struggles to come to terms with his own decision to abandon ship. Lord Jim is the name of a boat, and subsequently the nickname of the boat's owner, Richard Blake, in Penelope Fitzgerald's 1979 Booker Prize-winning novel Offshore.
Joseph Conrad (born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, Polish: [ˈjuzɛf tɛˈɔdɔr ˈkɔnrat kɔʐɛˈɲɔfskʲi] ⓘ; 3 December 1857 – 3 August 1924) was a Polish-British novelist and story writer.
Lord Jim may refer to: Lord Jim, a 1900 novel written by Joseph Conrad Lord Jim, a film based on the novel; Lord Jim, a film based on the novel; Lord Jim Wallace of Tankerness, Scottish politician "Lucky Lord Jim", a song by Doctor and the Medics from the 1986 album Laughing at the Pieces
SS Patna is a fictional ship in the novel Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad, originally published in Blackwood's Magazine from October 1899 to November 1900. Though never confirmed by the author, the ship is based on the real ship SS Jeddah. The fictional Patna used steam and sail in combination.
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Lucky Jim is a novel by Kingsley Amis, first published in 1954 by Victor Gollancz.It was Amis's first novel and won the 1955 Somerset Maugham Award for fiction. The novel follows the academic and romantic tribulations of the eponymous James (Jim) Dixon, a reluctant history lecturer at an unnamed provincial English university.
Lord Jim is a 1965 British adventure film made for Columbia Pictures in Super Panavision. [2] The picture was produced, written and directed by Richard Brooks , with Jules Buck and Peter O'Toole as associate producers.
Jim Gordon, a top drummer for Eric Clapton, George Harrison and countless others who was diagnosed with schizophrenia after murdering his mother in 1983, has died. According to the announcement ...