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| Heart of Darkness and Selections from the Congo Diary
'Heart of Darkness,' which appeared at the very beginning of our century, 'was a Cassandra cry announcing the end of Victorian Europe, on the verge of transforming itself into the Europe of violence,' wrote the critic Czeslaw Milosz.Originally published i...
More >'Heart of Darkness,' which appeared at the very beginning of our century, 'was a Cassandra cry announcing the end of Victorian Europe, on the verge of transforming itself into the Europe of violence,' wrote the critic Czeslaw Milosz.Originally published in 1902, Heart of Darkness remains one of this century's most enduring--and harrowing--works of fiction. Written several years after Conrad's grueling sojourn in the Belgian Congo, the novel tells the story of Marlow, a seaman who undertakes his own journey into the African jungle to find the tormented white trader Kurtz. Rich in irony and spellbinding prose, Heart of Darkness is a complex meditation on colonialism, evil, and the thin line between civilization and barbarity. This edition contains selections from Conrad's Congo Diary of 1890--the first notes, in effect, for the novel which was composed at the end of that decade.
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| File Size | 822.75 KB |
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| Publisher | Modern Library
Random House |
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| Publish Date | 12/31/1998 |
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| Print Pages | 176 |
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| Print ISBN | 037575377X |
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| eBook ISBN | 0679641246 |
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| Print List Price | $ 7.95 |
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| eBook List Price | $ 4.95 |
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Joseph Conrad
Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) led an itinerant life until the mid-1890s, first in exile in Russia with his family, and then as a seaman. During the course of his maritime career, he worked as a gunrunner, tried to commit suicide by shooting himself in the chest, and sailed throughou...
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