Heart of darkness / Joseph Conrad ; edited by D.C.R.A. Goonetilleke ; editorial assistants, Genevieve Kirk, Don LePan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924, author.

Contributor:

Goonetilleke, D. C. R. A., editor.

Series:

Broadview editions

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924. Heart of darkness.

Conrad, Joseph.

Europeans--Africa--Fiction.

Europeans.

Africa.

Trading posts--Fiction.

Trading posts.

Degeneration--Fiction.

Degeneration.

Imperialism--Fiction.

Imperialism.

Africa--Fiction.

Genre:

Fiction.

Novels.

Physical Description:

343 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm.

Edition:

Third edition.

Place of Publication:

Peterborough, Ontario : Broadview Editions, [2020]

Summary:

Marlowe sails down the Congo in search of Kurtz, a company agent who has, according to rumors, become insane in the jungle isolation.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Heart of Darkness

Appendix A Contemporary Reviews

1. From Edward Garnett, "Mr. Conrad's New Book," Academy and Literature (6 December 1902)

2. Hugh Clifford, "The Art of Mr. Joseph Conrad," Spectator (29 November 1902)

3. From "Mr. Conrad's New Book" (unsigned), Manchester Guardian (10 December 1902)

4. From "Youth" (unsigned), Times Literary Supplement (12 December 1902)

5. From Athenaeum (unsigned) (20 December 1902)

6. From "Some Stories by Joseph Conrad" (unsigned), New York Times Saturday Review of Books and Art (4 April 1903)

7. From The Monthly Review (unsigned) (7 April 1903)

8. Virginia Woolf, "Mr. Conrad's `Youth,'" Times Literary Supplement (20 September 1917)

Appendix B Diaries, Letters, Other Writings, and Comments by Conrad

1. From Conrad's Congo Diary (1890)

2. Letter to Marguerite Poradowska (26 September 1890)

3. From Letter to William Blackwood (31 December 1898)

4. From Edward Garnett, "Introduction" to Letters from Conrad (1928)

5. From Letter to R.B. Cunninghame Graham (31 January 1898)

6. From Letter to R.B. Cunninghame Graham (8 February 1899)

7. From Letter to William Blackwood (31 May 1902)

8. From Letter to Elsie Hueffer (3 December 1902)

9. From Letter to Edward Garnett (22 December 1902)

10. From "Geography and Some Explorers," National Geographic (March 1924)

11. From Letter to Roger Casement (21 December 1903)

12. "Author's Note" to Almayer's Folly (1895)

Appendix C The Congo: African, American, and European Viewpoints

1. From Disasi Makulo, The Life of Disasi Makulo (c. 1940)

2. From William G. Stairs, Victorian Explorer: The African Diaries of William G. Stairs (1887)

3. From George Washington Williams, An Open Letter to His Serene Majesty Leopold II (1890) -

4. From E.J. Glave, In Savage Africa: Or, SixYears Adventure in Congo-Land (1893)

5. From Guy Burrows, The Land of the Pigmies (1898)

6. From "An Englishman's Account of Congo State Methods," The Times (26 May 1899)

7. From Roger Casement, "The Casement Report" (1904)

8. From E.D. Morel, Great Britain and the Congo (1909)

9. From Mark Twain, King Leopold's Soliloquy: A Defense of His Congo Rule (1905)

Appendix D Henry Morton Stanley

1. From Henry Morton Stanley, Through the Dark Continent (1878)

2. From Henry Morton Stanley, "Preface," Through the Dark Continent (1899)

3. From Henry Morton Stanley, Incidents of the Journey through the Dark Continent (1886)

4. From speech at a dinner given in his honour by the Lotos Club in New York (27 November 1886)

5. From speech on being given the Freedom of the City of Swansea (4 October 1892)

6. Advertising Announcement (1899)

Appendix E British Perspectives on Race and Imperialism

1. From Thomas Carlyle, "Occasional Discourse on the Negro Question," Fraser's Magazine (December 1849)

2. From John Stuart Mill, "The Negro Question," Fraser's Magazine (January 1850)

3. From W.M. Thackeray to Anne Carmichael-Smyth (26 January 1853)

4. From John Ruskin, "Lecture 1: Inaugural" (1870)

5. From George Gissing to Algernon Gissing (23 January 1885)

6. From Joseph Chamberlain, Speech, the Imperial Institute (11 November 1895)

7. From Joseph Chamberlain, Speech, the Royal Colonial Institute (31 March 1897)

8. From Mary Kingsley, "Appendix 1: Trade and Labour in West Africa," Travels in West Africa (1897)

9. From Benjamin Kidd, The Control of the Tropics (1898)

10. From Cecil Rhodes, Speech at Cape Town (18 July 1898)

Appendix F Conrad's Reading

1. From Gabriela Cunninghame Graham, Saint Teresa, Being Some Account of Her Life and Times (1894)

2. From R.B. Cunninghame Graham, "Bloody Niggers," The Social-Democrat (April 1897)

3. From Jules Houdret, "The Congo Free State," Letter to the Editor of The Times (10 April 1897)

4. From H.R. Fox Bourne, "The Congo Free State," Letter to the Editor of The Times (16 April 1897)

5. From Andrew Seth, "Friedrich Nietzsche: His Life and Works," Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (October 1897)

6. From E.J. Glave, "Cruelty in the Congo Free State: Concluding Extracts from the Journals of E.J. Glave," Century Magazine (September 1897)

7. From "Notes," Saturday Review (17 December 1898)

Appendix G Major Textual Changes

Appendix H Illustrations

Appendix I The Photographs of Alexandre Delcommune

Appendix J The Photographs of Alice Harris

Appendix K Maps of the Congo.

Notes:

Previously published: Peterborough, Ont.: Broadview; Letchworth: Turpin, 1999.

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

Online version: Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924. Heart of darkness.

ISBN:

9781554815531

1554815533

OCLC:

1130668552