Heart of darkness
Subtitle: an authoritative text, backgrounds and sources, criticism.
By: Edited by Robert Kimbrough.
Contributors: Kimbrough, Robert.
Edition: 2nd editin
Series: A Norton critical edition
Publisher: Norton
Published: 1972
Place of publication: New York
Number of pages: 267
Subjects: Conrad, Joseph,  -- 1857-1924. 
Description: Marlow tells his friends of an experience in the British Congo where he once ran a river steamer for a trading company. He tells of the ivory traders' cruel exploitation of the natives there. Chief among these is a greedy and treacherous European named Kurtz, who has used savagery to obtain semi-divine power over the natives. While Marlow tries to get Kurtz back down the river, Kurtz tries to justify his actions, asserting that he has seen into the very heart of things. --publisher.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 263-267.