Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad
(Author)
Description
Published in 1902, Heart of Darkness is a well-known novella by Polish writer Joseph Conrad. Before its publication, it was featured in a three-part series in Blackwood's Magazine in 1899. The story features Charles Marlow, who accepts an assignment from a Belgian trading company to captain a riverboat in Africa transporting ivory. The book explores three levels of darkness - wilderness, slavery, humanity - through the eyes of this unsuspecting trader. Heart of Darkness is a symbolic frame narrative, and one of the best-loved novels of the Victorian era. Literary students and history lovers alike will adore this classic piece of literature. JOSEPH CONRAD (1857-1924) was a Polish author who wrote in English. Conrad was born in what is now Berdychiv, Ukraine, to a Polish noble family. After his parents' deaths in 1869, Conrad was placed in the care of his uncle, who let him become a seaman at 16. During this period of his life, Conrad experienced harrowing adventures that formed the basis for many of his books. After abandoning sea life at 36 and settling down in England, Conrad authored 19 novels and several short stories and essays. His most well-known works include Heart of Darkness, Nostromo, Victory, Almayer's Folly, and Lord Jim.
Product Details
Price
$12.99
Publisher
Cosimo Classics
Publish Date
October 01, 2012
Pages
114
Dimensions
5.0 X 7.99 X 0.27 inches | 0.29 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9781616407100
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Joseph Conrad (1857 - 1924) was a Polish-British writer regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language. He joined the British merchant marine in 1878, and was granted British citizenship in 1886. Though he did not speak English fluently until his twenties, he was a master prose stylist who brought a non-English sensibility into English literature. He wrote stories and novels, many with a nautical setting, that depict trials of the human spirit in the midst of an impassive, inscrutable universe. Conrad is considered an early modernist, though his works still contain elements of 19th-century realism. His narrative style and anti-heroic characters have influenced numerous authors and many films have been adapted from, or inspired by, his works. Writing in the heyday of the British Empire, Conrad drew on his native Poland's national experiences and his own experiences in the French and British merchant navies, to create short stories and novels that reflect aspects of a European-dominated world-including imperialism and colonialism-and that profoundly explore the human psyche.