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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      23 November 2018
      27 September 2018
      ISBN:
      9781108553766
      9781108428897
      9781108451673
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108553766
      Dimensions:
      (216 x 138 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.36kg, 204 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (216 x 138 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.27kg, 280 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, Area Studies, African Studies, African and Caribbean Literature, English Literature 1900-1945
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    Literature, Area Studies, African Studies, African and Caribbean Literature, English Literature 1900-1945
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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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