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Heart of darkness / Joseph Conrad / edited by Owen Knowles and Allan H. Simmons.
Van Pelt Library PR6005.O4 H43 2018
By Request
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924. Heart of darkness.
- Conrad, Joseph.
- Heart of darkness (Conrad, Joseph).
- Europeans--Africa--Fiction.
- Europeans.
- Africa.
- Trading posts--Fiction.
- Trading posts.
- Degeneration--Fiction.
- Degeneration.
- Imperialism--Fiction.
- Imperialism.
- Local Subjects:
- Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924. Heart of darkness.
- Europeans--Africa--Fiction.
- Degeneration--Fiction.
- Trading posts--Fiction.
- Imperialism--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Psychological fiction.
- Physical Description:
- lxii, 141 pages: map ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, [2018]
- Summary:
- I asked myself what I was doing there, with a sensation of panic in my heart as though I had blundered into a place of cruel and absurd mysteries not fit for a human being to behold'. Charles Marlow's dark intuition here arrives at the culmination of his physical and psychological quest in search of the infamous ivory-trader Kurtz in Joseph Conrad's most famous short story, Heart of Darkness. Ambiguously drawn to the powerful 'voice' of this autocratic European who has become a self-proclaimed ruler in an African colony, Marlow is increasingly embroiled in Kurtz's life and death: he is finally forced into a radical questioning, not only of his own assumptions, but also of the civilized and imperial pretensions of Western Europe. Offering a freshly-researched text based on the writer's original documents, this edition presents a classic of early modernist fiction in a version that recovers Conrad's preferred wordings, punctuation and narrative structure.
- Contents:
- List of Maps
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- A Note on the Text
- Select Bibliography
- Chronology
- Abbreviations and Note on Editions
- HEART OF DARKNESS
- APPENDICES: A The Congo Diary (1890)
- B Substantive Emendations to the Copy-Text: Conrad's Revisions
- A Sample
- C Africa in Life and Art: Extracts from Conrad's Letters and Reminiscences
- D Author's Note (1917)
- NOTES
- GLOSSARY OF NAUTICAL TERMS.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references, chronology, appendices, and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781108428897
- 1108428894
- 9781108451673
- 1108451675
- OCLC:
- 1033580882
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