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An edition of Heart of Darkness (1899)

Heart of darkness

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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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Broadview Press, B.R.A.D. Book Representation & Distribution Ltd.
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English
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245

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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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El corazón de las tinieblas
2008, Ediciones de la Flor
in Spanish
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Heart of darkness
2000, Prestwick House
in English - Prestwick House Literary Touchstones ed.
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Corazon de Las Tinieblas
June 2000, Lumen Espana
Paperback in Spanish
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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: complete, authoritative text with biographical and historical contexts, critical history, and essays from five contemporary critical perspectives
1996, Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press
in English - 2nd ed.
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Heart of darkness
1995, Broadview Press, B.R.A.D. Book Representation & Distribution Ltd.
in English
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El Corazon de las Tinieblas (Linea de Sombra. Serie Azul)
December 1, 1995, Del Sol
Paperback in Spanish
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Au cœur des ténèbres
January 7, 1993, Flammarion
Mass Market Paperback in French
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Heart of darkness: an authoritative text, backgrounds and sources, criticism
1988, Norton
in English - 3rd ed.

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Published in
Peterborough, Ont, Hadleigh
Series
Broadview literary texts

Classifications

Library of Congress
PR6005.O4H4 1995c, PR6005.O4 H4 1995c

The Physical Object

Pagination
245 p. :
Number of pages
245

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL18008337M
ISBN 10
1551110652
LCCN
96000458, 95225842, cn95931042
OCLC/WorldCat
32544053, 34919611
LibraryThing
2575
Goodreads
59790

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Work ID
OL38663W

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