Next Book Group: Weds 11th May: Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

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<span style="font-style: normal; font-size: medium;">The next book group book will be <span style="font-weight: bold;">Lord Jim </span>by<span style="font-weight: bold;"> Joseph Conrad</span>.</span><div><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br></span></div><div style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;">As it says on the internet.... <span style="font-style: italic;">"<span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">First published in 1900, </span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Lord Jim</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> established Conrad as one of the great storytellers of the twentieth century. Set in the Malay Archipelago, the novel not only provides a gripping account of maritime adventure and romance, but also an exotic tale of the East. Its themes also challenge the conventions of nineteenth-century adventure fiction, confirming Conrad's place in literature as one of the first 'modernists' of English letters."</span></span></span></div></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></span></span></div><div style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">We will meet in the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Shaftesbury Tavern</span> (not the Stapleton!) at <span style="font-weight: bold;">8pm</span> on <span style="font-weight: bold;">Wednesday 11th May</span>.</span></span></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></span></span></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">New people always welcome! Look for the book left out on the table!</span></span></div>