Perhaps the most popular of all his novels, Lord Jim is undoubtedly Joseph’s Conrad’s most exciting adventure story. Its theme of a heroic man victimized by his own integrity and destroyed by his sense of lost honor is one of the most appealing in the literature of idealism. All the powers of a great descriptive artist and a thinker concerned with courage and devotion and the crises of conscience are lavished upon this tale of a man who stakes his life on a high a principle and loses. “I will have no favorites,” Conrad wrote to an admirer, “but I do not feel grieved that you prefer Lord Jim to all my other books.”