Heart of darkness & selections from The Congo diary
By: Joseph Conrad ; introduction by Caryl Phillips.
Contributors: Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924.
Edition: Modern Library pbk. ed.
Publisher: Modern Library
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 109
Subjects: Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924 -- Travel -- Congo (Democratic Republic); Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924 -- Diaries.; Europeans -- Africa -- Fiction.; Trading posts -- Fiction.; Degeneration -- Fiction.; Imperialism -- Fiction.; Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Description and travel.; Africa -- Fiction.
Genres: Diaries.; Fiction.
Other titles: Heart of darkness and selections from The Congo diary
Description: "Originally published in 1902, Heart of Darkness remains one of this century's most enduring - and harrowing - works of fiction. 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 Rich in irony and spellbinding prose. Heart of Darkness 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."--BOOK JACKET.