Heart of Darkness: And Selections from the Congo Diary

Heart of Darkness: And Selections from the Congo DiarySelected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time Nominated as one of America's best loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read Introduction by Caryl Phillips Commentary by H. L. Mencken, E. M. Forster, Virginia Woolf, Ernest Hemingway, Bertrand Russell, Lionel Trilling, Chinua Achebe, and Philip Gourevitch Originally published in 1902, Heart of Darkness remains one of this century's most enduring works of fiction. Written

Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time - Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read

Introduction by Caryl Phillips
Commentary by H. L. Mencken, E. M. Forster, Virginia Woolf, Ernest Hemingway, Bertrand Russell, Lionel Trilling, Chinua Achebe, and Philip Gourevitch

Originally published in 1902, Heart of Darkness remains one of this century's most enduring works of fiction. Written several years after Joseph Conrad's grueling sojourn in the Belgian Congo, the novel 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. Virginia Woolf wrote of Conrad: "His books are full of moments of vision. They light up a whole character in a flash. . . . He could not write badly, one feels, to save his life."

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Modern Library
Published: 08/10/1999
ISBN: 9780375753770
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 7.80h x 5.10w x 0.40d
Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 8659 / Heart of Darkness
Reading Level: 9 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 10