Heart of darkness
an authoritative text, backgrounds and sources, criticism
by Joseph Conrad
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In turn-of-the century Africa, colonial traders driven by greed brave forbidding dangers to exploit the continent's vast treasures. One of these is sea captain Marlow, who penetrates the Congo's jungles in pursuit of the mysterious Mr. Kurtz, deranged chief of a remote trading station.
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Joseph Conrad (1857-1924)Times
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Heart of Darkness: And, the Complete Congo Diary
2015, Alma Classics
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Heart of Darkness: 'As Powerful a Condemnation of Imperialism as Has Ever Been Written'
2012, Penguin Books, Limited
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Heart of darkness
2000, Prestwick House
in English
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Heart of darkness
1996, Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press, Macmillan
in English
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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
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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
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Bibliography: p. [419]-420.
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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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