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Coming of Age

Lord Jim

Adapted from Lord Jim (1900) by Joseph Conrad
public-domain English text; newly written adaptation
Status
Ongoing
Length
45 chapters so far · 39 scenesAbout 2 hr 5 min published so far
Updated
October 2026
Rating
MatureAdult themes, no explicit content

You are Jim, a cadet who has rehearsed shipwrecks all his life and goes over the Patna's rail while eight hundred pilgrims sleep.

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About this story

A green-shaded inquiry takes your certificate, and Stein sends you up a river to Patusan with a silver ring for Doramin. Years later, Gentleman Brown's starving crew lands, your word lets them go, and Dain Waris dies for it. Forty-five chapters carry Jim from a missed rescue cutter to an open-handed walk up Doramin's stair.

How it opens

From the foretop, the river looked too peaceful for the hero you meant to become.

Training CaptainJim, stop admiring danger in the distance and check that brace.

Your navigation marks stood third in the class, and your cutter usually led the rest.

Rescue BoyIn your next adventure, leave one survivor for the ordinary crew.

Choose

Act before fear has time to argue.

Keep command when everyone else loses it.

Know the right action before danger arrives.

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