Heart of Darkness & Selections from The Congo Diary
by Joseph Conrad, Caryl Phillips
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Democratic Republic of Congo
Introduction by Caryl Phillips
Commentary by H. L. Mencken, E. M. Forster, Virginia Woolf, Ernest Hemingway, Bertrand Russell, Lionel Trilling, Chinua Achebe, and Philip Gourevitch
Originally published in 1902, Heart of Darkness remains one of this century’s most enduring works of fiction. Written several years after Joseph Conrad’s grueling sojourn in the Belgian Congo, the novel is a complex meditation on colonialism, evil, and the thin line between civilization and barbarity. This edition contains selections from Conrad’s Congo Diary of 1890—the first notes, in effect, for the novel, which was composed at the end of that decade. Virginia Woolf wrote of Conrad: “His books are full of moments of vision. They light up a whole character in a flash. . . . He could not write badly, one feels, to save his life.”
- Rank: #235552 in Books
- Published on: 1999-08-10
- Released on: 1999-08-10
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 7.87" h x .39" w x 5.12" l, .33 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 176 pages
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