315 pages
English language
Published July 30, 1996 by Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press.
Heart of darkness
complete, authoritative text with biographical and historical contexts, critical history, and essays from five contemporary critical perspectives Case studies in contemporary criticism
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Written several years after Conrad's grueling sojourn in the Belgian Congo, the novel tells the story of Marlow, a seaman who undertakes his own journey into the African jungle to find the tormented white trader Kurtz.
Subjects
- Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924
- Psychological fiction, English -- History and criticism
- Europeans -- Africa -- Fiction
- Trading posts -- Fiction
- Degeneration -- Fiction
- Imperialism -- Fiction
- Africa -- Fiction