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Lord Jim

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Lord Jim
successful in lifelong efforts to regain honor lost in moment of cowardice. [Br. Lit.: Lord Jim]

Lord Jim
tormented by his memory of having saved himself from a sinking ship with 800 Muslims aboard. [Br. Lit.: Joseph Conrad Lord Jim in Magill I, 522]
See : Remorse


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