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Heart of Darkness (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Joseph Conrad
from Dover Publications

Features:

• Unabridged

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• Colonialism/Antin-colonialism
  Joseph Conrad is an amazing writer; he uses the English language of the late 19th and early 20th centuries beautifully, he describes the colonial world at its apogee, he tells engrossing stories but even his seemingly potboiler plots (such as The Secret Sharer) raise disturbingly serious moral issues. All of these qualities are epitomized in The Heart of Darkness. Can anyone read the Heart of Darkness without thinking of Apocalypse Now? I believe the movie is one of the best adaptations of literature to... more info

• powerful book
  Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
  One of the first masterpieces of the 20th century and one of the key modernist text. This is a story that everyone should read, and Kindle edition provides the best format for the reading experience.

• humidity drips off the end of each line like a light mist in a heavy fog
  Probably the dampest book I've ever read--humidity drips off the end of each line like a light mist in a heavy fog. More is left unsaid than is written on the page, and this is truly a classic even though there is too much left unsaid for me to rate it at the very top.
  Favorite line: As Marlow cautiously pilots the steamboat up the river toward the inland station and its mysterious keeper Kurtz, his manager says "I authorize you to take all the risks." Marlow curtly snaps back "I refuse to take any."

• An excellent piece of epistemology!
  On page 3, the narrator (not Marlow) tells us that "Marlow was not typical (if his propensity to spin yarns be excepted), and to him the meaning of an episode was not inside like a kernel but outside, enveloping the tale which brought it out only as a glow brings out a haze, in the likeness of one of these misty halos that sometimes are made visible by the spectral illumination of moonshine."
  This story is not typical. Its meaning isn't inside the text; rather, the text requires its meaning to be... more info

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