Heart of Darkness and Selected Short Fiction
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- Paperback
376 pages
- Release Date
1 March 2024
Summary
When Charles Marlow travels to Africa to serve as steamboat pilot for an ivory-trading company, he learns he is to rendezvous with Kurtz, a trading-post agent held in high regard. But the deeper Marlow penetrates into the jungle, the grimmer the assessments of Kurtz become.
Described by Conrad himself as “something quite on another plane than an anecdote of a man who went mad in the Centre of Africa,” Heart of Darkness has long been regarded as a powerful appraisal of the fra…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781435172319 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1435172310 |
| Author: | Joseph Conrad |
| Publisher: | Union Square & Co. |
| Imprint: | Union Square & Co. |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 376 |
| Release Date: | 1 March 2024 |
| Weight: | 440g |
| Dimensions: | 202mm x 132mm x 28mm |
| Series: | Signature Editions |
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Joseph Conrad
Joseph Conrad (1857-1924)
Joseph Conrad was a Polish-born English novelist renowned for his profound and often unsettling explorations of the human condition. Despite immigrating to England later in life, he became one of the most celebrated and insightful novelists in the English literary canon. His most famous work, Heart of Darkness, is a powerful fictionalized account of colonial Africa, exposing the darker aspects of imperialism and human nature.
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