Heart of Darkness / The Congo Diary (Paperback)
| Author: Joseph/ Knowles Conrad | Editor: Robert Hampson Owen Knowles |
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Format: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
ISBN-10: 0141441674
ISBN-13: 9780141441672
Sku: 204518163
Publish Date: 9/25/2007
Dimensions:
(in Inches) 8H x 5L x 0.5T
Pages:
136
Age Range:
22 to UP
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| A group of white men journeys up the Congo River to invade the jungles of the Belgian Congo, in an effort to rob the natives of their ivory. *Author: Conrad, Joseph/ Knowles, Owen (EDT)/ Hampson, Robert (EDT)/ Stape, J. H. (EDT) *Series Title: Penguin Classics *Publication Date: 2007/09/25 *Number of Pages: 136 *Binding Type: Paperback *Language: English *Depth: 0.50 *Width: 5.00 *Height: 8.00 |
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In HEART OF DARKNESS, Conrad's most existential hero, Marlow, is the commander of a riverboat looking for ivory to trade in the Belgian Congo. His journey into the heart of the Congo is both a thrilling adventure and a symbolic excursion into the depths of the human psyche to confront the evil that exists there. Marlow's encounter with the mysterious and corrupted Kurtz, who dies proclaiming the "horror" of what he found in the Congo, is the novel's defining moment, when Marlow recognizes his kinship with Kurtz's corruption. This insight enables Marlow to retreat from Kurtz's world and return to England. Kurtz, in his attempts to reconcile his noble ideas with his greed, can't survive.
In HEART OF DARKNESS, Conrad's most existential hero, Marlow, is the commander of a riverboat looking for ivory to trade in the Belgian Congo. His journey into the heart of the Congo is both a thrilling adventure and a symbolic excursion into the depths of the human psyche to confront the evil that exists there. Marlow's encounter with the mysterious and corrupted Kurtz, who dies proclaiming the "horror" of what he found in the Congo, is the novel's defining moment, when Marlow recognizes his kinship with Kurtz's corruption. This insight enables Marlow to retreat from Kurtz's world and return to England. Kurtz, in his attempts to reconcile his noble ideas with his greed, can't survive.
Author Bio
Joseph Conrad
Jozef Teodor Konrad Korzenioski, son of Polish nationalists who died in exile for their political activities, was raised by relatives in various parts of Eastern Europe. He went to sea at 16, and spent 20 years at sea, working first on French merchant ships in the West Indies, then on English ships, where he learned the language and traveled to Latin America and Africa. He drew on these experiences for much of his fiction; in 1890 he was the commander of a ship that traveled up the Congo River, the inspiration for HEART OF DARKNESS. He began writing in 1892, on a voyage from England to Australia, and in 1895 he left the British merchant service to become a full-time writer. He settled in London and married an Englishwoman. Although English was not his native language, he is renowned for the subtlety and descriptiveness of his prose--despite the fact that he spoke the language all his life with a heavy accent. His model for the writing of fiction was Henry James, whom he addressed as "cher ma?tre." Conrad died suddenly of a heart attack at the age of 67. His epitaph, taken from Spenser's THE FAERIE QUEENE, reads: "Sleepe after toyle, port after stormie seas, /Ease after warre, death after life, does greatly please."
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"Joseph Conrad's 'Heart of Darkness' was one of the most profound books of my formative years. I have never forgotten it." - Patricia Cornwell
"Joseph Conrad's 'Heart of Darkness' was one of the most profound books of my formative years. I have never forgotten it." - Patricia Cornwell
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