"Heart of Darkness" and "The Secret Sharer" encapsulate his literary achievements--and his haunting portrayal of the dark side of man. Revised reissue.
Marlowe sails down the Congo in search of Kurtz, a company agent who has, according to rumors, become insane in the jungle isolation
A group of white men journeys up the Congo River to invade the jungles of the Belgian Congo, in an effort to rob the natives of their ivory.
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad is a real classic.
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad is a real classic.
"This is the best Norton Critical Edition yet! All my students have become intensely interested in reading Conrad--largely because of this excellent work." --Elise F. Knapp, Western Connecticut State University
In this rendering of Conrad's classic, we join colonial trader Marlow as he recounts his journey into the heart of Africa.
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad is a real classic.
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad is a real classic.
Heart of Darkness is a novella by Polish-English novelist Joseph Conrad about a narrated voyage up the Congo River into the Congo Free State in the Heart of Africa.
How is this book unique?
A novella, Heart of Darkness is Joseph Conrad's most famous work and a foundational text on the subject of colonialism. Heart of Darkness is based in part on a trip that Conrad took through modern-day Congo during his years as a sailor.
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The story is a complex exploration of the attitudes people hold on what constitutes a barbarian versus a civilized society and the attitudes on colonialism and racism that were part and parcel of European imperialism.
It provided the inspiration for Francis Ford Coppola's 1979 film Apocalypse Now. In 1998, the Modern Library ranked Heart of Darkness 67th on their list of the 100 best novels in English of the twentieth century.
(Oxford: Oxford UP, 2000), is an invaluable source of information about Conrad's life and works. SELECTED CRITICISM • indicates works included or excerpted in this Norton Critical Edition. • Achebe, Chinua. “An Image of Africa: Racism ...
In the novels of Thomas Hardy, for example, religious belief is treated, at best, as superstition or, at worst, the cause of evil. In contrast to Hardy's cold, intellectual disavowal of God, Heart of Darkness is, in some ways, ...
Maybe Mark Potter would even know where David Nichols was,how to reach him. Maybe. She would talk to Mr. Potter first thing in the morning, at his grocerystore in town. But inthe meantime, shehad tosee that house—the old Mullerplace.
Now award-winning illustrator Peter Kuper reimagines Conrad’s masterpiece for a new generation, transforming this dramatic tale of madness, greed, and evil into something visually immersive and profoundly complex.
When Meriel Owen, next in line to control the largest organization of witches in the country, discovers that it's the hot owner of a notorious underground club, she strokes an unusual deal that may plunge them all into the heart of darkness ...