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Heart of darkness (New edition)

Part of the The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Joseph Conrad series
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'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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Cambridge University Press
1108451675 / 9781108451673
Paperback / softback
823.912
27/09/2018
United Kingdom
English
Classics
280 pages : maps.
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Quiz No: 207925, Points 10.00, Book Level 9.00,
Upper Years - Key Stage 3 Learn More