Heart of Darkness
Author: Conrad, Joseph
ISBN: 9780375753770
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 15 Sep 1999
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback / softback
Plt;BPgt;Now in a beautifully repackaged Modern Library edition.Plt;/BPgt;
Plt;bPgt;Plt;bPgt;Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time P#8226;P#160;Nominated as one of AmericaP#8217;s best-loved novels by PBSP#8217;sP#160;Plt;iPgt;The Great American ReadPlt;/iPgt;Plt;/bPgt;Plt;brPgt;Plt;brPgt;Introduction by Caryl PhillipsPlt;brPgt;Commentary by H. L. Mencken, E. M. Forster, Virginia Woolf, Ernest Hemingway, Bertrand Russell, Lionel Trilling, Chinua Achebe, and Philip GourevitchPlt;/bPgt;Plt;brPgt;Plt;brPgt;Originally published in 1902,Plt;iPgt; Heart of DarknessPlt;/iPgt; remains one of this centuryP#8217;s most enduring works of fiction. Written several years after Joseph ConradP#8217;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 ConradP#8217;s Plt;iPgt;Congo DiaryPlt;/iPgt; of 1890P#8212;the first notes, in effect, for the novel, which was composed at the end of that decade. Virginia Woolf wrote of Conrad: P#8220;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.P#8221;
ISBN: 9780375753770
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 15 Sep 1999
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback / softback
Plt;BPgt;Now in a beautifully repackaged Modern Library edition.Plt;/BPgt;
Plt;bPgt;Plt;bPgt;Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time P#8226;P#160;Nominated as one of AmericaP#8217;s best-loved novels by PBSP#8217;sP#160;Plt;iPgt;The Great American ReadPlt;/iPgt;Plt;/bPgt;Plt;brPgt;Plt;brPgt;Introduction by Caryl PhillipsPlt;brPgt;Commentary by H. L. Mencken, E. M. Forster, Virginia Woolf, Ernest Hemingway, Bertrand Russell, Lionel Trilling, Chinua Achebe, and Philip GourevitchPlt;/bPgt;Plt;brPgt;Plt;brPgt;Originally published in 1902,Plt;iPgt; Heart of DarknessPlt;/iPgt; remains one of this centuryP#8217;s most enduring works of fiction. Written several years after Joseph ConradP#8217;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 ConradP#8217;s Plt;iPgt;Congo DiaryPlt;/iPgt; of 1890P#8212;the first notes, in effect, for the novel, which was composed at the end of that decade. Virginia Woolf wrote of Conrad: P#8220;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.P#8221;
