An edition of Heart of Darkness
(1899)
Heart of darkness
a case study in contemporary criticism
by Joseph Conrad
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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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Heart of Darkness: And, the Complete Congo Diary
2015, Alma Classics
in English
1847494013 9781847494016
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Heart of Darkness: 'As Powerful a Condemnation of Imperialism as Has Ever Been Written'
2012, Penguin Books, Limited
in English
0141199784 9780141199788
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Heart of Darkness: Webster's Thesaurus Edition
January 30, 2006, Icon Reference
Paperback
in English
0497252880 9780497252885
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Heart of Darkness (Penguin Modern Classics)
April 26, 2001, Penguin Audiobooks
014180209X 9780141802091
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Heart of darkness
2000, Prestwick House
in English
- Prestwick House Literary Touchstones ed.
1580495753 9781580495752
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Heart of darkness
1996, Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press, Macmillan
in English
- 2nd ed.
0312159013 9780312159016
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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.
0312159013 9780312159016
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Heart of darkness: a case study in contemporary criticism
1989, St. Martin's Press
in English
0312030266 9780312030261
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Heart of darkness: an authoritative text, backgrounds and sources, criticism
1988, Norton
- 3rd ed.
0393955524 9780393955521
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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
0393955524 9780393955521
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