HEART OF DARKNESS

Originally published in 1902, Heart of Darkness remains one of this centurys most enduring works of fiction. Written several years after Joseph Conrads grueling sojourn in the Belgian Congo, the novel is a complex meditation on colonialism, evil, and the thin li ne between civilization and barbarity. This edition contains selections from Conrads Congo Diary of 1890the first notes, in effect , for the novel, which was composed at the end of that decade. Virginia Woolf wrote of Conrad: His books are full of moments of vis ion. They ligh...[Read more]