An edition of Heart of Darkness (1899)

Heart of darkness

complete, authoritative text with biographical and historical contexts, critical history, and essays from five contemporary critical perspectives

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An edition of Heart of Darkness (1899)

Heart of darkness

complete, authoritative text with biographical and historical contexts, critical history, and essays from five contemporary critical perspectives

2nd ed.
  • 3.5 (111 ratings) ·
  • 697 Want to read
  • 46 Currently reading
  • 158 Have read

Heart of Darkness (1899) is a novella by Polish-English novelist Joseph Conrad, about a voyage up the Congo River into the Congo Free State, in the heart of Africa, by the story's narrator Charles Marlow. Marlow tells his story to friends aboard a boat anchored on the River Thames. Joseph Conrad is one of the greatest English writers, and Heart of Darkness is considered his best. His readers are brought to face our psychological selves to answer, ‘Who is the true savage?’. Originally published in 1902, Heart of Darkness remains one of this century’s most enduring works of fiction. Written several years after Joseph Conrad’s grueling sojourn in the Belgian Congo, the novel is a complex meditation on colonialism, evil, and the thin line between civilization and barbarity.

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English
Pages
315

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Heart of Darkness: And, the Complete Congo Diary
2015, Alma Classics
in English
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Heart of Darkness
2014, Standard Ebooks
in English
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Heart of Darkness: 'As Powerful a Condemnation of Imperialism as Has Ever Been Written'
2012, Penguin Books, Limited
in English
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Heart of Darkness: Webster's Thesaurus Edition
January 30, 2006, Icon Reference
Paperback in English
Cover of: Heart of Darkness (Penguin Modern Classics)
Heart of Darkness (Penguin Modern Classics)
April 26, 2001, Penguin Audiobooks
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Heart of darkness
2000, Prestwick House
in English - Prestwick House Literary Touchstones ed.
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Heart of darkness
1996, Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press, Macmillan
in English - 2nd ed.
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Heart of darkness: a case study in contemporary criticism
1989, St. Martin's Press
in English
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Heart of Darkness: An Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and Sources, Criticism (Norton Critical Editions)
October 1987, W. W. Norton & Company
in English

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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references.

Published in
Boston, USA
Series
Case studies in contemporary criticism
Genre
Fiction.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
823/.912
Library of Congress
PR6005.O4 H4 1996

The Physical Object

Pagination
x, 315 p. ;
Number of pages
315

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL824527M
Internet Archive
heartofdarknessc00conr
ISBN 10
0312159013, 0312114915
LCCN
95080800
Library Thing
5907225
Goodreads
1124312
1019937

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