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Written several years after Conrad's grueling sojourn in the Belgian Congo, the novel tells the story of Marlow, a seaman who undertakes his own journey into the African jungle to find the tormented white trader Kurtz.Complete, Authoritative Text with Biographical and Historical Contexts, Critical History, and Essays from Five Contemporary Critical Perspectives SECOND EDITION EDITED BY Ross C. Murfm University of Miami Part One of this volume reprints the text of Heart of Darkness from the 1921 Heinemann edition of Conrad's Collected Works - the last version of the text that Conrad approved. Part Two includes five contemporary critical essays on Heart of Darkness, representing reader-response, deconstructionist, feminist and gender, new historicist, and cultural approaches to Conrad's most famous tale. Three of the essays - reader-response, feminist and gen-der, and new historicist - were specifically written for this edition.
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- Author
- Joseph Conrad (auth.), Ross C Murfin (eds.)
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan
- Published
- 1996
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781137052278
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, Science, Literary Fiction
- Rating
- 3.42 / 5 (24 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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