Heart of Darkness (Dover Thrift Editions)

by Joseph Conrad

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Original publication date

1902

Important places

Belgian Congo

Africa

People/Characters

Awards and honors

Waterstones Books of the Century (1997, No 38)

BBC's Big Read (Best loved novel, 2003, No 158)

The Modern Library's 100 Best Novels (The Board's List, 67)

The Modern Library's 100 Best Novels (The Reader's List, 43)

Radcliffe Publishing Course Top 100 Novels of the 20th Century (21)

Larry McCaffery's 20th Century Greatest Hits (28)

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First words

The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest.

Last words

The offing was barred by a black bank of clouds, and the tranquil waterway leading to the uttermost ends of the earth flowed sombre under an overcast sky -- seemed to lead into the heart of an immense darkness.

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Other stories include:
"Youth"
"Karain"
"An Outpost of Progress"

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Amazon.com Book Description (ISBN 0140186522, Paperback)

A masterpiece of twentieth-century writing, Heart of Darkness (1902) exposes the tenuous fabric that holds "civilization" together and the brutal horror at the center of European colonialism. Conrad's crowning achievement recounts Marlow's physical and psychological journey deep into the heart of the Belgian Congo in search of the mysterious trader Kurtz.

Joyce Carol Oates on Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness:

"Heart of Darkness has had an influence that goes beyond the specifically literary. This parable of a man's 'heart of darkness' dramatized in the alleged 'Dark Continent' of Africa transcended its late Victorian era to acquire the stature of one of the great, if troubling, visionary works of western civilization."

(retrieved from Amazon Mon, 19 Nov 2007 03:58:10 -0500)

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