Heart of Darkness (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Joseph Conrad - ISBN: 9780143106586
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Journey into Africa’s heart, uncovering the darkness within civilization itself.

Heart of Darkness (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

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  • Paperback

    144 pages

  • Release Date

    27 September 2012

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Summary

Joseph Conrad’s enduring portrait of the ugliness of colonialism in a deluxe edition with a gripping cover by Hellboy artist Mike Mignola.

Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read

Heart of Darkness is the thrilling tale of Marlow, a seaman and wanderer recounting his physical and psychological journey in search of the infamous ivory trader Kurtz. Traveling upriver into the heart of the African continent, he gradually becomes obs…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780143106586
ISBN-10:0143106589
Author:Joseph Conrad
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:Penguin Classics
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:144
Edition:De Luxe edition
Release Date:27 September 2012
Weight:194g
Dimensions:212mm x 143mm x 11mm
Series:Penguin Classics Deluxe Editions
About The Author

Joseph Conrad

Joseph Conrad (originally J zef Teodor Konrad Nalecz Korzeniowski) was born in the Ukraine in 1857 and grew up under Tsarist autocracy. In 1896 he settled in Kent, where he produced within fifteen years such modern classics asYouth,Heart of Darkness,Lord Jim,Typhoon,Nostromo,The Secret AgentandUnder Western Eyes. He continued to write until his death in 1924. Today Conrad is generally regarded as one of the greatest writers of fiction in English-his third language.

Adam Hochschild is the author of seven books, including King Leopold’s Ghost- A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa and Bury the Chains- Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire’s Slaves. He teaches narrative writing at the Graduate School of Journalism, University of California at Berkeley.

Maya Jasanoff is the Coolidge Professor of History at Harvard. She is the author of the prize-winning Edge of Empire- Lives,Culture, and Conquest in the East, 1750-1850 (2005) and Liberty’sExiles- American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World (2011), which received the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfi ction and the George Washington Book Prize, and The Dawn Watch-Joseph Conrad in a Global World (2017). A 2013 Guggenheim Fellow, Jasanoff won the 2017 Windham-Campbell Prize for Nonfiction.

Timothy S. Hayes is an Instructor of English at Auburn University in Alabama. His research interests include narrative theory and the novel, particularly the works of Robert Louis Stevenson and Joseph Conrad.

Mike Mignola is an award-winning artist and writer. He is the creator of Hellboy, which has been adapted into two feature films by Guillermo del Toro. He lives in Los Angeles, California.

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