Heart of darkness
an authoritative text, backgrounds and sources, criticism.
by Joseph Conrad
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Marlow tells his friends of an experience in the British Congo where he once ran a river steamer for a trading company. He tells of the ivory traders' cruel exploitation of the natives there. Chief among these is a greedy and treacherous European named Kurtz, who has used savagery to obtain semi-divine power over the natives. While Marlow tries to get Kurtz back down the river, Kurtz tries to justify his actions, asserting that he has seen into the very heart of things. --publisher.
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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: Webster's Thesaurus Edition
January 30, 2006, Icon Reference
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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
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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
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Heart of darkness
1996, Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press, Macmillan
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Heart of darkness: a case study in contemporary criticism
1989, St. Martin's Press
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Heart of darkness: an authoritative text, backgrounds and sources, criticism
1988, Norton
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Heart of darkness: an authoritative text, backgrounds and sources, criticism.
1972, Norton
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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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