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Heart of Darkness: An Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and Sources, Criticism (Norton Critical Editions) by Joseph Conrad
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by Joseph Conrad

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Series (with order)
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Original publication date
1902
1899 (serial in Blackwood's Magazine)
Important places
Belgian Congo
Africa
People/Characters
Marlow
Kurtz
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)
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The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest.
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Other stories include:
"Youth"
"Karain"
"An Outpost of Progress"

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