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Heart of Darkness Complete Authoritative Text With Biographical and Historical Contexts Critical History and Essays from Five Comtemporary Critica ives - Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism
Author: Joseph Conrad

A masterpiece of twentieth-century writing, Heart of Darkness (1902) exposes the tenuous fabric that holds "civilization" together and the brutal horror at the center of European colonialism. Conrad's crowning achievement recounts Marlow's physical and psychological journey deep into the heart of the Belgian Congo in search of the mysterious tra...  more »der Kurtz. Joyce Carol Oates on Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness: "Heart of Darkness has had an influence that goes beyond the specifically literary. This parable of a man's 'heart of darkness' dramatized in the alleged 'Dark Continent' of Africa transcended its late Victorian era to acquire the stature of one of the great, if troubling, visionary works of western civilization."  « less

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ISBN-13: 9780312159016
ISBN-10: 0312159013
Publication Date: 2/15/1996
Pages: 315
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Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Book Type: Hardcover
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