Heart of Darkness / Almayer's Folly / The Lagoon
by Joseph Conrad
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These three short stories by Joseph Conrad were published in 1915 in a collection entitled 'Within the Tides'. They have been edited and re-formatted for Bishopston Publications in 12 point Book Antiqua for optimum reading pleasure.Tags
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Heart of Darkness is one of the best stories ever told. Defining, riveting (no pun intended despite the importance of rivets in the narrative), complex, controversial. Perhaps the work which best manifests Conrad's power and his view of the human condition. I have taught this work several times and conducted seminars about it. These never prove to be quiet affairs. The other two stories are worthy, but not of the same complexity and power as Heart of Darkness.
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Joseph Conrad is recognized as one of the 20th century's greatest English language novelists. He was born Jozef Konrad Nalecz Korzeniowski on December 3, 1857, in the Polish Ukraine. His father, a writer and translator, was from Polish nobility, but political activity against Russian oppression led to his exile. Conrad was orphaned at a young age show more and subsequently raised by his uncle. At 17 he went to sea, an experience that shaped the bleak view of human nature which he expressed in his fiction. In such works as Lord Jim (1900), Youth (1902), and Nostromo (1904), Conrad depicts individuals thrust by circumstances beyond their control into moral and emotional dilemmas. His novel Heart of Darkness (1902), perhaps his best known and most influential work, narrates a literal journey to the center of the African jungle. This novel inspired the acclaimed motion picture Apocalypse Now. After the publication of his first novel, Almayer's Folly (1895), Conrad gave up the sea. He produced thirteen novels, two volumes of memoirs, and twenty-eight short stories. He died on August 3, 1924, in England. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Heart of Darkness / Almayer's Folly / The Lagoon
- Original publication date
- 1966
- Related movies
- Apocalypse Now (1979 | IMDb); Heart of Darkness (1993 | IMDb); Heart of Darkness (1999 | IMDb); Heart of Darkness (2009 | IMDb); La folie Almayer (1973 | IMDb); La folie Almayer (2009 | IMDb)
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