Heart of Darkness [electronic resource] : and Selections from The Congo Diary
Joseph Conrad2000
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Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time
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Introduction by Caryl Phillips
Commentary by H. L. Mencken, E. M. Forster, Virginia Woolf, Ernest Hemingway,
Bertrand Russell, Lionel Trilling, Chinua Achebe, and Philip Gourevitch
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. This
edition contains selections from Conrad's Congo Diary of 1890-the first notes,
in effect, for the novel, which was composed at the end of that decade. Virginia
Woolf wrote of Conrad: "His books are full of moments of vision. They light up a
whole character in a flash. . . . He could not write badly, one feels, to save
his life."
Main title:
Author:
Joseph Conrad, Author
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Modern Library, 2000
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file) (176 pages)
Audience:
General/trade
System details:
Platform: epubMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9780679641247
Language:
English
BRN:
438982
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