Heart of darkness
by Joseph Conrad
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Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness was first published in 1899 in serial form in London's Blackwood's Magazine. Loosely based on Conrad's firsthand experience in rescuing a company agent from a remote station in the heart of the Congo, the novel is considered a literary bridge between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. With its modern literary approach to questions such as the ambiguous nature of good and evil, the novel foreshadows many of the themes and techniques that define modern literature. This edition includes a glossary and notes to help the modern reader contend with Conrad's complex approach to the human condition.
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Joseph Conrad (1857-1924)Places
Africa, Congo (Democratic Republic), Congo RiverTimes
19th centuryShowing 11 featured editions. View all 452 editions?
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Heart of Darkness: And, the Complete Congo Diary
2015, Alma Classics
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
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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: 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: 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
1988, Norton
in English
- 3rd ed.
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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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Unabridged.
Includes readers notes (p.5-7).
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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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