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Heart of Darkness: An Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and Sources, Criticism (Norton Critical Edition) 3rd Edition
Heart of Darkness An Authoritative Text Backgrounds and Sources Criticism 3rd Edition - Norton Critical Edition
Author: Joseph Conrad, Robert Kimbrough (Editor)
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 ...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780393955521
ISBN-10: 0393955524
Publication Date: 10/1987
Pages: 420
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Publisher: W. W. Norton Company
Book Type: Paperback
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A classic, well worth reading for the psychological condition of domination in a colonial world. Also makes Apocalypse Now much more interesting when compared to this, the inspiration.
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