Title: Heart of darkness & 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.
Subjects: Description and travel, Diaries, Travel, Fiction, Trading posts, Imperialism, Degeneration, Europeans, Fiction, psychological, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), Africa, fiction, Africa -travel, British & irish literary biography, World literature, Fiction subjects, Africa & the middle east - travel essays & descriptions, Suffering
Places: Africa, Congo (Democratic Republic)
People: Joseph Conrad (1857-1924)