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Almayer's Folly and The Rover by Joseph Conrad
Category: Classic | Series: Wordsworth Classics
From the rain forests of Almayer's Folly to the Mediterranean coast of The Rover, Conrad's first and final completed novels are played out against contrasting backgrounds. Almayer, in Borneo, is hopelessly obsessed by his deluded dreams for himself and his daughter, which take no account of her falling ...Show more
An Outcast of the Islands by ,Joseph Conrad
Category: Fiction
A disgraced clerk gets a second chance at work and love in this atmospheric tale of greed and lust. Conrad's second novel provides a cynical view of colonialism in 19th century Indonesia.
Collins Classics - Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Category: Collins Classics | Series: Collins Classics
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.'The reaches opened before us and closed behind, as if the forest had stepped leisurely across the water to bar the way for our return. We penetrated deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness.' At the peak of European I ...Show more
HEART OF DARKNESS AND THE SECRET SHARER by CONRAD JOSEPH
Category: Fiction | Series: Signet Classics (Paperback)
Two of Conrad's BEST-KNOWN works--in a single volume In this pair of literary voyages into the inner self, Joseph Conrad has written two of the most chilling, disturbing, and noteworthy pieces of fiction of the twentieth century. @JungleFever Heading down to Africa on a boat. Too hot! I get the creepin ...Show more
Heart Of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Essentials
'Hunters for gold or pursuers of fame, they all had gone out on that stream, bearing the sword, and often the torch, messengers of the might within the land, bearers of a spark from the sacred fire'. Marlow, a seaman, tells of a journey up the Congo. His goal is the troubled European and ivory trader Ku ...Show more
Heart Of Darkness (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Joseph Conrad
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition Ser.
Joseph Conrad's enduring portrait of the ugliness of colonialism in a deluxe edition with a gripping cover by "Hellboy" artist Mike Mignola "Heart of Darkness" is the thrilling tale of Marlow, a seaman and wanderer recounting his physical and psychological journey in search of the infamous ivory trader ...Show more
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Pulp! the Classics Ser.
Heart of Darkness is a novel by Polish-British novelist Joseph Conrad, about a voyage up the Congo River into the Congo Free State, in the heart of Africa, by the story's narrator Marlow. Marlow tells his story to friends aboard a boat anchored on the River Thames, London, England. This setting provides ...Show more
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library 174
In a novella which remains highly controversial to this day, Conrad explores the relations between Africa and Europe. On the surface, this is a horrifying tale of colonial exploitation. The narrator, Marlowe journeys on business deep into the heart of Africa. But there he encounters Kurtz, an idealist a ...Show more
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Hesperus Classics
Conrad's Heart of Darkness is a profound exploration into the human subconscious twinned with a terrifying portrayal of the dangers of imperialism. Seaman Marlow tells of his journey to the heart of the Belgian Congo in search of the elusive Mr Kurtz. Away from civilisation as he knows it, he comes to r ...Show more
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad; Paul O'Prey (Contribution by)
Category: Classic | Series: Twentieth Century Classics Ser.
Heart of Darkness (1899) is a short novel by Joseph Conrad, written as a frame narrative, about Charles Marlow's life as an ivory transporter down the Congo River in Central Africa. The river is "a mighty big river, that you could see on the map, resembling an immense snake uncoiled, with its head in th ...Show more
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Voyages Ser.
VINTAGE VOYAGES- A world of journeys, from the tallest mountains to the depths of the mindLife on the river is brutal, and unknown threats lurk in the darkness; the silence of the jungle is broken only by the ominous sound of drumming.Marlow's mission to captain a steamer upriver into the dense interior ...Show more