Heart of Darkness

Joseph Conrad, Owen Knowles, Robert Hampson , Owen Knowles

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Penguin
06 February 2008

Published alongisde other Conrad's works, on the 150th anniversary of his death

Heart of Darkness has been considered for most of this century as a literary classic, and also as a powerful indictment of the evils of imperialism. It reflects the savage repressions carried out in the Congo by the Belgians in one of the largest acts of genocide committed up to that time. Conrad's narrator encounters at the end of the story a man named Kurtz, dying, insane, and guilty of unspeakable atrocities. First appearing as a three-part series in Blackwood's Magazine in 1899, it was soon after published as a novella, in 1902 in the volume Youth- A Narrative; and Two Other Stories.

By: Joseph Conrad
Edited by: Owen Knowles, Robert Hampson, Owen Knowles
Imprint: Penguin
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 197mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 12mm
Weight: 146g
ISBN: 9780141441672
ISBN 10: 0141441674
Pages: 192
Publication Date: 06 February 2008
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Joseph Conrad was born in the Ukraine in 1857 and grew up under Tsarist autocracy. In 1874 Conrad travelled to Marseilles, where he served in French merchant vessels before joining a British ship in 1878 as an apprentice. In 1886 he obtained British nationality. Eight years later he left the sea to devote himself to writing, publishing his first novel, Almayer's Folly, in 1895. The following year he settled in Kent, where he produced within fifteen years such modern classics as Youth, Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, Typhoon, Nostromo, The Secret Agent and Under Western Eyes. He continued to write until his death in 1924.