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A Christmas Tree (Household Words, 21 December 1850)
Our School (Household Words, 11 October 1851)
Lying Awake (Household Words, 30 October 1852)
Where We Stopped Growing (Household Words, 1 January 1853)
Gone Astray (Household Words, 13 August 1853)
An Unsettled Neighbourhood (Household Words, 11 November 1854)
Personal (Household Words, 12 June 1858)
New Year's Day (Household Words, 1 January 1859)
Dullborough Town (All the Year Round, 30 June 1860)
Night Walks (All the Year Round, 21 July 1860)
Chambers (All the Year Round, 18 August 1860)
Nurse's Stories (All the Year Round, 8 September 1860)
Some Recollections of Mortality (All the Year Round, 16 May 1863)
Birthday Celebrations (All the Year Round, 6 June 1863)
Travelling Abroad
A Narrative of Extraordinary Suffering (Household Words, 12 July 1851)
Our Watering-Place (Household Words, 2 August 1851)
A Flight (Household Words, 30 August 1851)
Fire and Snow (Household Words, 21 January 1854)
Our French Watering-Place (Household Words, 4 November 1854)
Out of Town (Household Words, 29 September 1855)
Railway Dreaming (Household Words, 10 May 1856)
Out of the Season (Household Words, 28 June 1856)
Refreshments for Travellers (All the Year Round, 24 March 1860)
Travelling Abroad (All the Year Round, 7 April 1860)
Shy Neighbourhoods (All the Year Round, 29 September 1860)
Arcadian London (All the Year Round, 29 September 1860)
The Calais Night (All the Year Round, 2 May 1863)
Chatham Dockyard (All the Year Round, 29 August 1863)
Sleep to Startle Us
A Walk in a Workhouse (Household Words, 25 May 1850)
Detective Police (Household Words, 27 July and 10 August 1850)
A Paper-Mill (Household Words, 31 August 1850)
Three 'Detective' Anecdotes (Household Words, 14 September 1850)
Railway Strikes (Household Words, 11 January 1851)
Bill-Sticking (Household Words, 2 March 1851)
Spitalfields (Household Words, 5 April 1851)
On Duty with Inspector Field (Household Words, 14 June 1851)
A Curious Dance Round a Curious Tree (Household Words, 17 January 1852)
A Sleep to Startle Us (Household Words, 13 March 1852)
A Plated Article (Household Words, 24 April 1852)
Down with the Tide (Household Words, 5 February 1853)
H. W. (Household Words, 16 April 1853)
A Nightly Scene in London (Household Words, 26 January 1856)
Wapping Workhouse (All the Year Round, 3 February 1860)
A Small Star in the East (All the Year Round, 19 December 1868)
On an Amateur Beat (All the Year Round, 27 February 1869)
Insularities
Pet Prisoners (Household Words, 27 April 1850)
A Poor Man's Tale of a Patent (Household Words, 19 October 1850)
Lively Turtle (Household Words, 26 October 1850)
Red Tape (Household Words, 15 February 1851)
A Monument of French Folly (Household Words, 8 March 1851)
Trading in Death (Household Words, 27 November 1852)
Proposals for Amusing Posterity (Household Words, 12 February 1853)
On Strike (Household Words, 11 February 1854)
To Working Men (Household Words, 7 October 1854)
Insularities (Household Words, 19 January 1856)
The Demeanour of Murderers (Household Words, 14 June 1856)
Nobody, Somebody, and Everybody (Household Words, 30 August 1856)
The Murdered Person (Household Words, 11 October 1856)
The Best Authority (Household Words, 20 June 1857)
Amusements of the People
The Amusements of the People (Household Words, 30 March and 13 April 1850)
Some Account of an Extraordinary Traveller (Household Words, 20 April 1850)
Old Lamps for New Ones (Household Words, 15 June 1850)
The Ghost of Art (Household Words, 20 July 1850)
Epsom (Household Words, 7 June 1851)
Betting-Shops (Household Words, 26 June 1852)
The Spirit Business (Household Words, 7 May 1853)
The Noble Savage (Household Words, 11 June 1853)
Frauds on the Fairies (Household Words, 1 October 1853)
Gaslight Fairies (Household Words, 10 February 1855)
Well-Authenticated Rappings (Household Words, 20 February 1858)
Please to Leave Your Umbrella (Household Words, 1 May 1858)
In Memoriam W. M. Thackeray (Cornhill Magazine, February 1864)
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reviewed Selected Journalism, 1850-1870 on February 01, 2021 Selected Journalism, 1850-1870
Jim, no other name is given except the rather pretentious one of Lord, which he acquires later on. A son of an English clergyman, who seeks adventure, among other things at sea. And becomes the first mate of the rusty, old, local steamer Patna at the age of 23. Going from port to port, mostly in the western Pacific . But everything changes, when taking 800 pilgrims to Mecca, something hits the ship underneath, springing a major leak, not good. Opening a hatch, our friend Jim sees water flooding the Patna, any moment she will sink to the bottom of the abyss. Reporting to the obese German captain, what he found. The to be honest not brave officers of the steamer agree with Jim, and decide little time remains, before the vessel goes under. What about all the passengers? Never a big deal, a shortage of lifeboats, will doom them anyways . No warning is given .... Besides, its every man for himself. The captain and his officers take the only lifeboat left (after a vigorous struggle) and go overboard. Leaving one man dead he collapsed of a heart attack. The wavering Jim, finally jumps into the sea, to save himself, no hero. Yet strangely the Patna doesn't disappear under the waves and everyone is rescued by a French gunboat... Of course, all the officers careers are over, after they are picked up too by a different vessel, nobody would hire such cowards. The first mate even testifies at the naval inquiry, the only one of the officers that does , all lose their papers. Later Jim travels from Asian harbor to harbor, he gets supplies for ships in need but always sneaking off when his true identity is discovered. People by then do not care, only the ashamed Jim, still fortune improves when meeting Captain Marlow, an old friend of his. Soon Mr.Stein, a rich European trader with a fabulous butterfly collection, gives him a job, in an Indonesian island jungle. He quickly helps to defeat a local warlord and receives the name Lord Jim for his vigorous efforts . The Englishman has the power, he can do anything he wants there, finding love with a mixed race girl, life can be sweet, however will the moody man every cleanse his soul of his demons? Enemies are around, trying to bring down Lord Jim's jungle kingdom....One of Joseph Conrad's greatest novels, the story of a man who seeks redemption, some place under the sun to live happily, fully, not be condemned for his past indiscretions...A beautiful dream...
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Add Selected Journalism, 1850-1870, Charles Dickens (1812-1870) was always on the move, in his imagination and in his walks around London. This collection showcases Dickens's much admired talent for bringing touches of imagination and entertaining insights to factual accounts of life in Lon, Selected Journalism, 1850-1870 to the inventory that you are selling on WonderClubX
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Add Selected Journalism, 1850-1870, Charles Dickens (1812-1870) was always on the move, in his imagination and in his walks around London. This collection showcases Dickens's much admired talent for bringing touches of imagination and entertaining insights to factual accounts of life in Lon, Selected Journalism, 1850-1870 to your collection on WonderClub |
