'I asked myself what I was doing there, with a sensation of panic in my heart as though I had blundered into a place of cruel and absurd mysteries not fit for a human being to behold'. Charles Marlow's dark intuition here arrives at the culmination of his physical and psychological quest in search of the infamous ivory-trader Kurtz in Joseph Conrad's most famous short story, Heart of Darkness. Ambiguously drawn to the powerful 'voice' of this autocratic European who has become a self-proclaimed ruler in an African colony, Marlow is increasingly embroiled in Kurtz's life and death: he is finally forced into a radical questioning, not only of his own assumptions, but also of the civilized and imperial pretensions of Western Europe. Offering a freshly-researched text based on the writer's original documents, this edition presents a classic of early modernist fiction in a version that, for the first time, recovers Conrad's preferred wordings, punctuation and narrative structure.
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Weight: 270g
Dimensions: 137 x 216mm
Publication Date: 27 Sep 2018
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781108451673
About Joseph Conrad
Owen Knowles Research Fellow at the University of Hull is the author of A Conrad Chronology (2014) An Annotated Critical Bibliography of Joseph Conrad (1992) and the Oxford Reader's Companion to Conrad (with Gene M. Moore 2000). Advisory Editor to The Conradian: The Journal of the Joseph Conrad Society he has also edited a number of works for the Cambridge Edition of Conrad's Works Everyman Library and Penguin Books and has also edited Volumes 6 and 9 of The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad (Cambridge 2002 2007) as well as two volumes of correspondence to and about Conrad. Allan H. Simmons Professor of English at St Mary's University Twickenham London is the author of Joseph Conrad (2006) in Palgrave's Critical Issues series and the readers guide Conrad's Heart of Darkness (2007). As well as editing Joseph Conrad in Context (Cambridge 2009) and Joseph Conrad: Contemporary Reviews Volume 1 (Cambridge 2012) he has edited a number of Conrad's works for the Cambridge Edition of the Works of Joseph Conrad of which he is General Editor Everyman Library and Penguin Books. He is an Advisory Editor to The Conradian: The Journal of the Joseph Conrad Society.