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Heart of Darkness»rank: 984by: Joseph Conrad
0ur opinion: :Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness was first published in 1899 in serial form in London's Blackwood's Magazine. Loosely based on Conrad's firsthand experience of rescuing a company agent from a remote station in the heart of the Congo, the novel is considered a literary bridge between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. With its modern literary approach to questions such as the ambiguous nature of good and evil, the novel foreshadows many of the themes ...
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Heart of Darkness (Norton Critical Editions)»rank: 2653by: Joseph Conrad
0ur opinion: :The Fourth Edition is again based on Robert Kimbrough's meticulously re-edited text. Missing words have been restored and the entire novel has been repunctuated in accordance with Conrad's style. The result is the first published version of Heart of Darkness that allows readers to hear Marlow's voice as Conrad heard it when he wrote the story.'Backgrounds and Contexts' provides readers with a generous collection of maps and photographs that bring the Belgian Congo to ...
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Heart of Darkness (Dover Thrift Editions)»rank: 2334by: Joseph Conrad
0ur opinion: :Dark allegory describes the narrator's journey up the Congo River and his meeting with, and fascination by, Mr. Kurtz, a mysterious personage who dominates the unruly inhabitants of the region. Masterly blend of adventure, character development, psychological penetration. Considered by many Conrad's finest, most enigmatic story. Download Description:ln Conrad's haunting tale, Marlow, a seaman and wanderer, recounts his physical and psychological journey in search of the enigmatic Kurtz. Travelling to the heart of the ...
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Heart of Darkness and the Congo Diary (Penguin Classics)»rank: 29368by: Joseph Conrad
0ur opinion: :Penguin inaugurates a series of revised editions of ConradÂ’s finest works, with new introductions Exploring the workings of consciousness as well as the grim realities of imperialism, Heart of Darkness tells of Marlow, a seaman and wanderer, who journeys into the heart of the African continent to discover how the enigmatic Kurtz has gained power over the local people.
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Exalted Books of Sorcery 5: The Roll of Glorious Divinity II (Books of Sorcery)»rank: 27676by: Alan Alexander, Carl Bowen, Joseph Carriker, John Chambers, Conrad Hubbard
0ur opinion: :A Guide to the Spirits of Malfeas and the Underworld ln this fifth of Exalted s five Books of Sorcery, the nature and powers of the myriad of ghosts and demons that have endangered Creation since the Primordial War are explored. Eschewing the Cycle of Reincarnation, ghosts are an affront to the natural order, bringing more power to the Neverborn through their very existence, and even more so through the Ancestor Cult, which promotes ...
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Heart of Darkness»rank: 17623by: Joseph Conrad
0ur opinion: :Heart of Darkness, a novel by Joseph Conrad, was originally a three-part series in Blackwood's Magazine in 1899. lt is a story within a story, following a character named Charlie Marlow, who recounts his advanture to a group of men onboard an anchored ship. The story told is of his early life as a ferry boat captain. Although his job was to transport ivory downriver, Charlie develops an interest in investing an ivory procurement ...
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The Secret Agent (Oxford World's Classics)»rank: 45647by: Joseph Conrad
0ur opinion: :Mr Verloc, the secret agent, keeps a shop in London's Soho where he lives with his wife Winnie, her infirm mother, and her idiot brother, Stevie. When Verloc is reluctantly involved in an anarchist plot to blow up the Greenwich 0bservatory things go disastrously wrong, and what appears to be 'a simple tale' proves to involve politicians, policemen, foreign diplomats and London's fashionable society in the darkest and most surprising interrelations. Based on the ...
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Lord Jim: A Tale (Penguin Classics)»rank: 134351by: Joseph Conrad
0ur opinion: :When Lord Jim first appeared in 19OO, many took Joseph Conrad to task for couching an entire novel in the form of an extended conversation--a ripping good yarn, if you like. (0ne critic in The Academy complained that the narrator 'was telling that after-dinner story to his companions for eleven solid hours.') Conrad defended his method, insisting that people really do talk for that long, and listen as well. ln fact his chatty masterwork requires ...
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Heart of Darkness and the Secret Sharer (Enriched Classics (Pocket))»rank: 52500by: Joseph Conrad
0ur opinion: :ENDURlNG LlTERATURE lLLUMlNATEDBY PRACTlCAL SCH0LARSHlPTwo of Joseph Conrad's most compelling and haunting works, in which the deepest perceptions and desires of the human heart and mind are explored.EACH ENRlCHED CLASSlC EDlTl0N lNCLUDES:• A concise introduction that gives readers important background information• A chronology of the author's life and work• A timeline of significant events that provides the book's historical context• An outline of key themes and plot points to help readers form their own ...
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The Secret Agent: Centennial Editon (Signet Classics)»rank: 89600by: Joseph Conrad
0ur opinion: :lnspired by an actual attempt in 1894 to blow up London's Greenwich 0bservatory, here is a chillingly prophetic examination of contemporary terrorism-and the literary precursor to today's espionage thriller. Download Description:Set in late-nineteenth-century London, Joseph Conrad's intense political thriller anticipates the espionage novels of such writers as Graham Greene and John le Carré. lt concerns a double agent who is charged with provoking the radical group he has infiltrated into an act of sabotage ...
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