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Reflects the savage repressions carried out in the Congo by the Belgians in one of the largest acts of genocide committed up to that time.Read More

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  • Foyles

    A haunting Modernist masterpiece and the inspiration for Francis Ford Coppola's Oscar-winning film Apocalypse Now, Heart of Darkness explores the limits of human experience and the nightmarish realities of imperialism. Conrad's narrator Marlow, a seaman and wanderer, recounts his physical and psychological journey in search of the infamous ivory trader Kurtz: dying, insane, and guilty of unspeakable atrocities. Travelling upriver to the heart of the African continent, he gradually becomes obsessed by this enigmatic, wraith-like figure. Marlow's discovery of how Kurtz has gained his position of power over the local people involves him in a radical questioning, not only of his own nature and values, but also those of western civilisation. Part of a major series of new editions of Conrad's most famous works in Penguin Classics, this volume contains Conrad's Congo Diary, a chronology, further reading, notes, a map of the Congo, a glossary and an introduction discussing the author's experiences in Africa, the narrative and symbolic complexities of Heart of Darkness and critical responses to the novel. Edited with an introduction by Owen Knowles.

  • Play

    Heart of Darkness has been considered for most of this century as a literary classic and also as a powerful indictment of the evils of imperialism. It reflects the savage repressions carried out in the Congo by the Belgians in one of the largest acts of genocide committed up to that time. Conrad's narrator encounters at the end of the story a man named Kurtz dying insane and guilty of unspeakable atrocities. First appearing as a three-part series in "Blackwood's Magazine" in 1899 it was soon after published as a novella in 1902 in the volume "Youth: A Narrative"; and "Two Other Stories".

  • BookDepository

    Heart of Darkness : Paperback : Penguin Books Ltd : 9780141441672 : 0141441674 : 01 Dec 2007 : Marlow, a seaman and wanderer, recounts his physical and psychological journey in search of the infamous ivory trader Kurtz: dying, insane, and guilty of unspeakable atrocities. Travelling upriver to the heart of the African continent, he gradually becomes obsessed by this enigmatic, wraith-like figure.

  • Blackwell

    Penguin inaugurates a series of revised editions of Conradas finest works, with new introductions Exploring the workings of consciousness as well as the grim realities of imperialism, Heart of Darkness tells of Marlow, a seaman and wanderer...

  • Pickabook

    Joseph Conrad, J. H. Stape, Robert Hampson (Editor)

  • 0141441674
  • 9780141441672
  • Joseph Conrad
  • 2 August 2007
  • Penguin Classics
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 192
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