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Book Synopsis Heart of Darkness - Ed. Goonetilleke - Second Edition by : Joseph Conrad
Download or read book Heart of Darkness - Ed. Goonetilleke - Second Edition written by Joseph Conrad and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 1999-08-16 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Marlow travelling upriver in central Africa to find Kurtz, an ivory agent as consumed by the horror of human life as he is by physical illness, has long been considered a classic, and continues to be widely read and studied. This edition, edited by one of the leading figures in ‘the Conrad controversy,’ includes an introduction and explanatory notes, as well as a fascinating variety of contemporary documents that help to set this extraordinary work in the context of the period from which it emerged. The introduction and bibliography have been updated, and two new appendices have been added; the second of these is a selection of Alice Harris’s extraordinary but little-known photographs documenting the horrors of colonialism in turn-of-the-century Congo.
Book Synopsis Heart of Darkness - Ed. Goonetilleke - Second Edition by : Joseph Conrad
Download or read book Heart of Darkness - Ed. Goonetilleke - Second Edition written by Joseph Conrad and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 1999-08-16 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Marlow travelling upriver in central Africa to find Kurtz, an ivory agent as consumed by the horror of human life as he is by physical illness, has long been considered a classic, and continues to be widely read and studied. This edition, edited by one of the leading figures in ‘the Conrad controversy,’ includes an introduction and explanatory notes, as well as a fascinating variety of contemporary documents that help to set this extraordinary work in the context of the period from which it emerged. The introduction and bibliography have been updated, and two new appendices have been added; the second of these is a selection of Alice Harris’s extraordinary but little-known photographs documenting the horrors of colonialism in turn-of-the-century Congo.
Book Synopsis Heart of Darkness by : Joseph Conrad
Download or read book Heart of Darkness written by Joseph Conrad and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1990 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dark allegory describes the narrator's journey up the Congo River and his meeting with, and fascination by, Mr. Kurtz, a mysterious personage who dominates the unruly inhabitants of the region. Masterly blend of adventure, character development, psychological penetration. Considered by many Conrad's finest, most enigmatic story.
Book Synopsis Heart of Darkness – Ed. Goonetilleke – Third Edition by : Joseph Conrad
Download or read book Heart of Darkness – Ed. Goonetilleke – Third Edition written by Joseph Conrad and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2020-07-21 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first incarnation of this Broadview edition of Heart of Darkness appeared in 1995, the second in 1999; both were widely acclaimed, and the Goonetilleke Heart of Darkness remained for many years one of Broadview’s best-selling titles. For the third edition the book has been completely revised and updated to take account of the scholarship of the most recent generation. The introduction has been extensively rewritten, and the appendices of contextual materials thoroughly overhauled. The two previous editions of the Goonetilleke Heart of Darkness included a substantial selection of documents on the history of Benin, ranging from excerpts taken from Olaudah Equiano’s eighteenth-century narrative to documents concerning the Benin massacre of 1897. Those documents concerning a neighboring Bantu society were included in large part because of the paucity of known late nineteenth-century documents concerning the Congo by black Africans—or indeed by black observers of any nationality. In place of those Benin-related materials, this new edition includes substantial excerpts from George Washington Williams’s Letter to Leopold II, as well as substantial excerpts from an extraordinary document not included in any other edition of Heart of Darkness (but discussed extensively in two ground-breaking twenty-first century works of scholarship, David Van Reybrouck’s Congo: The Epic History of a People and Maya Jasanoff’s The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World): the autobiography of Disasi Makulo. Makulo grew up near the shore of the Congo River in the 1880s and early 1890s, was enslaved by notorious ivory dealer Tippu Tip, and then was taken under the wing of Henry Morton Stanley. Makulo’s account—substantial excerpts of which are here translated into English for the first time—opens an unprecedented window on life in the equatorial forest of the Congo in the late nineteenth century.
Book Synopsis Heart of Darkness by : Joseph Conrad
Download or read book Heart of Darkness written by Joseph Conrad and published by Blurb. This book was released on 2019-02-11 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition of Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad is given by Ashed Phoenix - Million Book Edition
Book Synopsis Heart of Darkness by : Joseph Conrad
Download or read book Heart of Darkness written by Joseph Conrad and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-19 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heart of Darkness is a novella written by Polish-born writer Joseph Conrad (born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski). Before its 1902 publication, it appeared as a three-part series (1899) in Blackwood's Magazine. It is widely regarded as a significant work of English literature and part of the Western canon.This highly symbolic story is actually a story within a story, or frame narrative. It follows Marlow as he recounts, from dusk through to late night, his adventure into the Congo to a group of men aboard a ship anchored in the Thames Estuary.The story details an incident when Marlow, an Englishman, took a foreign assignment as a ferry-boat captain, employed by a Belgian trading company. Although the river is never specifically named, readers may assume it is the Congo River, in the Congo Free State, a private colony of King Leopold II. Marlow is employed to transport ivory downriver; however, his more pressing assignment is to return Kurtz, another ivory trader, to civilization in a cover up. Kurtz has a reputation throughout the region.
Book Synopsis Heart of Darkness by : Joseph Conrad
Download or read book Heart of Darkness written by Joseph Conrad and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 2006 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Previous editions edited by Robert Kimbrough."
Book Synopsis Heart of Darkness : Large Print by : Joseph Conrad
Download or read book Heart of Darkness : Large Print written by Joseph Conrad and published by . This book was released on 2018-08-17 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heart of Darknessby Joseph ConradHeart of Darkness is a novella written by Polish-born writer Joseph Conrad (born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski). Before its 1902 publication, it appeared as a three-part series (1899) in Blackwood's Magazine. It is widely regarded as a significant work of English literature and part of the Western canon.We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.
Book Synopsis Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (Illustrated) by : Joseph Conrad
Download or read book Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (Illustrated) written by Joseph Conrad and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2018-09-03 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting Heart of Darkness (Large Print Edition) by Joseph Conrad. This classic is part of The Great Books Series by Golding Books. An allegorical novel (or precisely a novella) like no other, Heart of Darkness is a masterpiece of psychological fiction and one of many classic sea stories from Joseph Conrad, though the action predominantly takes place on the Congo River. Charles Marlow captains a steamboat for an ivory trading company, and grows obsessed with ivory trader Kurtz, who has turned himself into a charismatic demigod of the local tribes. Heart of Darkness examines what it means to be civilized, and in asking questions about imperialism and racism it suggests much about who people at the time called "savages" and who is the cause of darkness. It is one of the most gripping and incisive of dark classics, and is also an excellent introductory point to classic and complex short novels or more serious literature (including its suitability as young adult literature). Golding Books' Great Books Series, along with its Essential Series, comprises a wide variety of classic, influential and important books. These two series aim to champion not only remarkable and recognized literary achievements, but also to highlight the meaningful and significant works of lesser-known authors. Get your copy of the titles through convenient online purchase as an eBook or in paperback (including some Large Print editions). Joseph Conrad was born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski in the Russian Empire (now Ukraine, and once part of the Kingdom of Poland) in 1857. Because of his father's attempts at farming and political activism, the family moved repeatedly (such as to Warsaw, Vologda, and Chernihiv) and Conrad was home-schooled. An aloof and often depressed man, 20-year-old Conrad attempted suicide by shooting himself in the chest with a revolver. Born a Russian subject, he was granted British nationality in 1886 after joining the British merchant marine in 1878, and eventually settled in Kent, England. About half of his 19-year merchant marine career was spent at sea; he achieved captain's rank after working in numerous crew roles. His most popular novels include The Nigger of the 'Narcissus' (1897), Heart of Darkness (1899), Lord Jim (1900), Typhoon (1902), Nostromo (1904), and The Secret Agent (1907). After suffering throughout his life from issues with his physical and mental health, Conrad died of a likely heart attack at the age of 66.
Book Synopsis Heart of Darkness by : Joseph Conrad
Download or read book Heart of Darkness written by Joseph Conrad and published by . This book was released on 2017-03-31 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heart of Darkness (1899) is a short novel by Polish novelist Joseph Conrad, written as a frame narrative, about Charles Marlow's experience as an ivory transporter down the Congo River in Central Africa. The river is "a mighty big river, that you could see on the map, resembling an immense snake uncoiled, with its head in the sea, its body at rest curving afar over a vast country, and its tail lost in the depths of the land". In the course of his travel in central Africa, Marlow becomes obsessed with Mr. Kurtz. The story is a complex exploration of the attitudes people hold on what constitutes a barbarian versus a civilized society and the attitudes on colonialism and racism that were part and parcel of European imperialism. Originally published as a three-part serial story, in Blackwood's Magazine, the novella Heart of Darkness has been variously published and translated into many languages. In 1998, the Modern Library ranked Heart of Darkness as the sixty-seventh of the hundred best novels in English of the twentieth century.
Book Synopsis Heart of Darkness by : Joseph Conrad
Download or read book Heart of Darkness written by Joseph Conrad and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2013-11-15 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “We penetrated deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness...” Heart of Darkness is a novel by Joseph Conrad about Charles Marlow's life as an ivory transporter down the Congo River in Central Africa. The river is “a mighty big river, that you could see on the map, resembling an immense snake uncoiled, with its head in the sea, its body at rest curving afar over a vast country, and its tail lost in the depths of the land.” The story is a complex exploration of the attitudes people hold on what constitutes a barbarian versus a civilized society and the attitudes on colonialism and racism that were part of European imperialism. This excellent edition is listed on the College Board Advanced Placement reading list for AP English.
Book Synopsis Heart of Darkness by : Joseph Conard
Download or read book Heart of Darkness written by Joseph Conard and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-24 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heart of Darkness is a novella written by Polish-born writer Joseph Conrad (born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski). Before its 1902 publication, it appeared as a three-part series (1899) in Blackwood's Magazine. It is widely regarded as a significant work of English literature and part of the Western canon.This highly symbolic story is actually a story within a story, or frame narrative. It follows Marlow as he recounts, from dusk through to late night, his adventure into the Congo to a group of men aboard a ship anchored in the Thames Estuary.The story details an incident when Marlow, an Englishman, took a foreign assignment as a ferry-boat captain, employed by a Belgian trading company. Although the river is never specifically named, readers may assume it is the Congo River, in the Congo Free State, a private colony of King Leopold II. Marlow is employed to transport ivory downriver; however, his more pressing assignment is to return Kurtz, another ivory trader, to civilization in a cover up. Kurtz has a reputation throughout the region.
Book Synopsis Heart of Darkness by : Joseph Conrad
Download or read book Heart of Darkness written by Joseph Conrad and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-04 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This premium quality large print edition includes the complete text of Joseph Conrad's classic tale in a freshly edited and newly typeset edition. With a large 6" x 9" page size, this Summit Classic Press large print edition is printed on heavyweight 60# bright white paper with a fully laminated cover featuring an original full color design. First published in 1899 as a three-part serial, Heart of Darkness is one of literature's most analyzed, interpreted and studied works. Ironically, Conrad and his contemporaries regarded it as a minor work, seized upon as a singularly important literary effort in the post-colonial era. A classic "frame story," Heart of Darkness opens aboard a British ship, with "Marlow" recounting his journey up the Congo River as an agent for a Belgian ivory trading concern. Set in the aftermath of the late 19th century "Scramble for Africa," when imperial powers laid claim to large swaths of that continent as colonies, Heart of Darkness takes place in the infamous "Belgian Congo," notorious for its brutality and cruelty. Marlow's mission is to travel upriver to the Company's most remote station in search of a man named Kurtz, the agent charged with running the station, amid concerns about the man and the station's operations. In the course of his disturbing journey, Marlow witnesses brutality, violence and hatred between colonists and native Africans and learns the truth about Kurtz, who has gone mad in becoming both a god and a prisoner of the native Africans. Critics have condemned Conrad as racist for his portrayal of the primitive barbarism of African natives, but it is difficult to find any endorsement of the view that white men are inherently superior. The story has traditionally been cast as a psychological study of the consequences of the racism of colonialism, and the long-standing view has been that the story is primarily a scathing attack on colonialism, but many critics today hold that the story is about the emptiness at the center of human existence. To be sure, the tale is a study of contrasts: good and evil, civilized and primitive, sanity and insanity. It may well be that the experts and scholars of later generations have made of the story whatever fits their particular agenda and views, and modern readers might well be advised to read the story and decide for themselves what it is, rather than to read into it what others have decided it should be. Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) was born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski to parents who were ostensibly minor Polish nobility, but were Russian citizens as a result of the Second Partition of Poland. The family moved several times, including a brief forced exile to far northern Russia as a result of his parents' involvement in an anti-Tsarist plot. With both parents dead of tuberculosis, at the age of eleven Conrad went to live with an uncle, and in 1874 he began a career as a seaman, working his way up from seaman to a captain's rank. Conrad obtained British citizenship in 1886, but always considered himself a Pole. Leaving the merchant marine at 36 to pursue a writing career, he is today widely regarded as a great English-language novelist, although early publishers were concerned with his command of written English, a language he learned in his twenties. Conrad had visited many of the areas he wrote about, but had little personal contact with indigenous societies and relied on second-hand information for his description of native cultures. Conrad's depictions of the often futile, misguided or even malicious actions of humans struggling against an indifferent universe brought a distinctly non-English tragic element into English literature, influenced by Poland's long and often troubled history. And while his work is generally regarded as modernist literature, a strain of traditional romanticism clearly informs many of his narratives.
Book Synopsis Heart of Darkness by : Joseph Conrad
Download or read book Heart of Darkness written by Joseph Conrad and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-09-10 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Bishopston Large Print Edition of Joseph Conrad's famous novella is set in 18 point Book Antiqua font, for easy reading by the visually impaired. The text has been fully revised and formatted for optimum reading pleasure. 'Heart of Darkness', despite its relative brevity, is possibly the most well-known and widely read of all of Conrad's considerable literary output.
Book Synopsis Heart of Darkness by : Joseph Conrad
Download or read book Heart of Darkness written by Joseph Conrad and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-03-14 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heart of Darkness is a literary classic written by esteemed Anglo-Polish writer, Joseph Conrad. The story is a complex exploration of the beliefs people hold on what constitutes a barbarian versus a civilized society and the stance on colonialism and racism that was part and parcel of European imperialism. Originally published as a three-part serial story in Blackwood's Magazine, the novella Heart of Darkness has been variously published and translated into many languages. In 1998, the Modern Library ranked Heart of Darkness as the sixty-seventh of the hundred best novels in English of the twentieth century.
Book Synopsis Penguin English Library Heart of Darkness by : Joseph Conrad
Download or read book Penguin English Library Heart of Darkness written by Joseph Conrad and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2012-10-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Penguin English Library Edition of Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad 'The mind of man is capable of anything - because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future. What was there after all? Joy, fear, sorrow, devotion, rage - who can tell? - but truth - truth stripped of its cloak of time. Let the fool gape and shudder - the man knows, and can look on without a wink' Marlow, a seaman, tells of a journey up the Congo. His goal is the troubled European and ivory trader Kurtz. Worshipped and feared by invaders as well as natives, Kurtz has become a godlike figure, his presence pervading the jungle like a thick, obscuring mist. As his boat labours further upstream, closer and closer to Kurtz's extraordinary and terrible domain, so Marlow finds his faith in himself and civilization crumbling. Conrad's Heart of Darkness has been considered the most important indictment of the evils of imperialism written to date. The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.
Book Synopsis Heart of Darkness by : Joseph Conrad
Download or read book Heart of Darkness written by Joseph Conrad and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-10-14 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heart of Darkness (1899) is a novella by Polish-British novelist Joseph Conrad, about a voyage up the Congo River into the Congo Free State, in the heart of Africa, by the story's narrator Marlow. Marlow tells his story to friends aboard a boat anchored on the River Thames, London, England. This setting provides the frame for Marlow's story of his obsession with the ivory trader Kurtz, which enables Conrad to create a parallel between London and Africa as places of darkness. Central to Conrad's work is the idea that there is little difference between so-called civilized people and those described as savages; Heart of Darkness raises important questions about imperialism and racism. The novella has been widely published and translated into many languages. In 1998, the Modern Library ranked Heart of Darkness as the sixty-seventh of the hundred best novels in English of the twentieth century. It remains a great and popular read.
