Heart of Darkness
$18.40
- Paperback
192 pages
- Release Date
5 February 2008
Summary
Heart of Darkness: A Journey into Imperial Savagery
Heart of Darkness, a literary classic and powerful indictment of imperialism, reflects the brutal repressions in the Congo by the Belgians. Conrad’s narrator confronts Kurtz, a man dying, insane, and guilty of unspeakable atrocities. Originally serialized in Blackwood’s Magazine in 1899, it was later published as a novella in 1902 within the volume Youth: A Narrative; and Two Other Stories.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141441672 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141441674 |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
| Author: | Joseph Conrad, Owen Knowles, Robert Hampson |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 5 February 2008 |
| Weight: | 148g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 12mm |
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About The Author
Joseph Conrad
Joseph Conrad was born in the Ukraine in 1857 and grew up under Tsarist autocracy. In 1874 Conrad travelled to Marseilles, where he served in French merchant vessels before joining a British ship in 1878 as an apprentice. In 1886 he obtained British nationality. Eight years later he left the sea to devote himself to writing, publishing his first novel, Almayer’s Folly, in 1895. The following year he settled in Kent, where he produced within fifteen years such modern classics as Youth, Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, Typhoon, Nostromo, The Secret Agent and Under Western Eyes. He continued to write until his death in 1924.
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