Heart of Darkness

This is a new book. Condition: Brand New.

This Norton Critical Edition includes:

- A newly edited text based on the first English book edition (1902), the last version to which Conrad is known to have actively contributed. "Textual History and Editing Principles" provides an overview of the textual controversies and ambiguities perpetually surrounding Heart of Darkness.

- Background and source materials on colonialism and the Congo, nineteenth-century attitudes toward race, Conrad in the Congo, and Conrad on art and literature.

- Fifteen illustrations.

- Seven contemporary responses to the novella along with eighteen essays in criticism-ten of them new to the Fifth Edition,

including an entirely new subsection on film adaptations of Heart of Darkness.

- A Chronology and an updated Selected Bibliography.

Book details and technical specifications

Format: Paperback / softback
ISBN13: 9780393264869
Published: September 2016

Number of pages: 504
Width: 130 mm
Height: 213 mm
Depth: 28 mm

Publisher: WW Norton & Co