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by: Joseph Conrad
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9781580495752
ISBN: 1580495753
Label: Prestwick House Inc.
Manufacturer: Prestwick House Inc.
Number Of Pages: 80
Publication Date: 2004-09
Publisher: Prestwick House Inc.
Sales Rank: 10080
Studio: Prestwick House Inc.
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Product Description:
Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness was first published in 1899 in serial form in London’s Blackwood’s Magazine.
Loosely based on Conrad’s firsthand experience of rescuing a company agent from a remote station in the heart of the Congo, the novel is considered a literary bridge between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. With its modern literary approach to questions such as the ambiguous nature of good and evil, the novel foreshadows many of the themes and techniques that define modern literature.
This Prestwick House Literary Touchstone Edition includes a glossary and reader’s notes to help the modern reader contend with Conrad’s complex approach to the human condition.
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - Make sure you have the right expectations
I was a little disappointed in the Heart of Darkness. I think mostly because I was looking for a horror story, and this story definitely was not it.
The story is supposed to be disturbing. I told Otty that I did not find the tale to be unsettling and he reminded me that I need to remember when it was written. I am usually good at putting myself in the context of when the story was written, which this one was written in the late 1800's. I think my problem with the story is that yes, ... Read More
Rating:  - a literary statement on colonial engagement
This is not an easy read. But I would read it just for the pleasure of language use. literary beauty it has. before the theoretical thinking on colonialism, turning native or fieldwork, this is a very early but sophisticated engagement in a novel form....
Rating: - Most Overated Book of all Time
I know that scholars are going to disagree with me but Conrad's narrative alternates between exasperatingly long stories of inconsequential matters and skimming over consequential matters. For instance, we are given page after page of Marlowe waiting for his rivets and then, all of a sudden, he is underway with no explanation of how the repairs got done or when the rivets finally arrived. Kurtz himself is just a tiny part of the narrative. We really dont learn about the inner Kurtz. More time ... Read More
Rating: - The Horror! The Over-Analyzed Horror!
Classics of western literature tend to take on an air of infallibility, with billions of English professors offering interpretations that become better known than the work itself. The baggage-free reader of "Heart of Darkness" will find that Conrad used a lot of vague allegory and symbolism that lent a haunting and disturbing feel to the story. But Conrad's symbolism is sometimes so diffuse that a cynical reader may find that the English professors are seeing what they want to see, and that the story ... Read More
Rating: - Disturbing
This is a hard book to like, but I think it is very possible to appreciate, and frankly I loved it. It's dark, but the descriptions are beautiful and truly make this book work; they are what drives this terrifying and psychological plot.
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