Contains "Heart of Darkness" in which an English trading company sends a sea captain to find a renegade trader who has become mad with greed and power over the natives in the Congo; and includes three short stories, an introduction to author, questions, and suggestions for further reading.
Marlow comes face to face with the corruption and despair that lies at the heart of human existence when he undertakes a journey on behalf of a Belgian trading company up the Congo River in search of the tormented white ivory trader, Kurtz.
Marlow comes face to face with the corruption and despair that lies at the heart of human existence when he undertakes a journey on behalf of a Belgian trading company up the Congo River in search of the tormented white ivory trader, Kurtz.
At the age of twelve, orphan Will Cooper is sent to work a trading post on the edge of the Cherokee Nation's land, where he spends his life learning about and defending the lives of the Native Americans and desiring the love of Claire Featherstone, the wife of a successful Cherokee landowner and patriarch.
authoritative text, backgrounds and contexts, criticism
Conrad, Joseph
2006
A comprehensive collection of critical commentaries on Joseph Conrad's classic novel "Heart of Darkness, " including those from contemporaries Henry James and Virginia Woolf; along with the complete text of the novel.
Jacob de Zoet travels from Holland to Dejima in Nagasaki Harbor where he will have five years to earn a sufficient fortune to win the hand of his wealthy fianc?e. When he meets the disfigured daughter of a samurai doctor, Jacob's intentions become different.
Jacob de Zoet, having arrived in Nagasaki Harbor's Dejima in 1799, has intentions to make a fortune in five years and return home to Holland to win the hand of his finac?e, but he meets the disfigured daughter of a samurai doctor and finds his plans changing and his life in danger.
Presents the unabridged text of Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness," along with scene-by-scene summaries, an overview of the story's plot, discussion questions with answers, a brief biography of Joseph Conrad, and more.
Presents the classic novel by nineteenth-century British author Joseph Conrad about Marlow, an adventurer and seaman and his physical and psychological journey into Africa where he witnesses the brutality of the natives by white traders.
