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THE HEART OF DARKNESS
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| By: |
Joseph Conrad, Prof. Cedric Watts (Editor) |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£3.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0460874772 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780460874779 |
| Publisher: |
ORION PUBLISHING CO |
| Pub. date: |
2 February, 1995 |
| Series: |
Everyman |
| Pages: |
176 |
| Description: |
Part of the "Everyman" series which has been re-set with wide margins for notes and easy-to-read type. Each title includes a themed introduction by leading authorities on the subject, life-and-times chronology of the author, text summaries, annotated reading lists and selected criticism and notes. |
| Synopsis: |
Did he live his life through in every detail of desire, temptation and surrender during that supreme moment of complete knowledge? He cried whisperingly at some image at some vision,–he cried twice, with a cry that was no more than a breath- "The horror! The Horror!" Charles Marlow's journey into the heart of Africa is odyssey into corruption, absurdity the Africans and conspiring against each other; he voyages upstream on a paddle–steamer that comes under lethal attack; and he encounters the great idealist, Mr Kurtz, the genius who seemed to represent the best Europe. But Mr Kurtz has 'taken a high seat among the devils of the land', and Marlow returns to Europe bearing the burden of appalling knowledge, forced to make his 'choice of nightmares'. Conrad's seminal tale of self-insprired the far-reaching film Apocalypse Now as well as generations of critical discussion. A comprehensive paperback edition, with introduction notes, selected criticism, text summery and chronology of Conrad's life and times |
| Illustrations: |
chronology |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ) |
| Returns: |
Returnable |