Joseph Conrad (originally Teodor Josef Konard Korzeniowski) was born in Russian-dominated Ukraine in 1857. His parents were punished by the Russians for their Polish nationalist activities and both died while Conrad was still a child. Lord Jim is a work of Joseph Conrad’s maturity as a writer, and is one of the book which established him as a master storyteller and a great novelist. With this book Joseph Conrad set the style for a whole class of literature—the novel of the outcast from civilization finding refuge in the tropics. The novel is set against a maritime background in the Far East. It brings out to the full, Conrad's lengthy, firsthand experiences as a Master Mariner prior to his becoming a writer