Hang ideas! They are tramps, vagabonds, knocking at the back-door of your mind, each taking a little of your substance, each carrying away some crumb of that belief in a few simple notions you must cling to if you want to live decently and would like to die easy! from Lord Jim
Joseph Conrad's Lord Jim, the first of his major novels and typically emerging from events to take on a life of its own, appeared in 1900 when the Victorian Age was disappearing, from whose earlier tradition L ...