Heart of darkness
Subtitle: an authoritative text, backgrounds and sources, criticism
By: Joseph Conrad ; edited by Robert Kimbrough.
Contributors: Kimbrough, Robert.
Edition: 3rd ed.
Series: A Norton critical edition
Publisher: Norton
Published: 1988
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 420
Subjects: Conrad, Joseph,  -- 1857-1924. 
Description: In turn-of-the century Africa, colonial traders driven by greed brave forbidding dangers to exploit the continent's vast treasures. One of these is sea captain Marlow, who penetrates the Congo's jungles in pursuit of the mysterious Mr. Kurtz, deranged chief of a remote trading station.
Notes: Bibliography: p. [419]-420.