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A haunting Modernist masterpiece and the inspiration for Francis
Ford Coppola's Oscar-winning film Apocalypse Now, Heart of Darkness
explores the limits of human experience and the nightmarish
realities of imperialism. Conrad's narrator Marlow, a seaman and
wanderer, recounts his physical and psychological journey in search
of the infamous ivory trader Kurtz: dying, insane, and guilty of
unspeakable atrocities. Travelling upriver to the heart of the
African continent, he gradually becomes obsessed by this enigmatic,
wraith-like figure. Marlow's discovery of how Kurtz has gained his
position of power over the local people involves him in a radical
questioning, not only of his own nature and values, but also those
of western civilisation. Part of a major series of new editions of
Conrad's most famous works in Penguin Classics, this volume
contains Conrad's Congo Diary, a chronology, further reading,
notes, a map of the Congo, a glossary and an introduction
discussing the author's experiences in Africa, the narrative and
symbolic complexities of Heart of Darkness and critical responses
to the novel. Edited with an introduction by Owen Knowles 'Seems to
reach into the heart of Conrad himself' Peter Ackroyd
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Vanity Fair (Paperback)
William Makepeace Thackeray; Introduction by Owen Knowles; Notes by Owen Knowles; Series edited by Keith Carabine
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R155
R123
Discovery Miles 1 230
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With an Introduction and Notes by Owen Knowles, University of Hull.
Thackeray's upper-class Regency world is a noisy and jostling
commercial fairground, predominantly driven by acquisitive greed
and soulless materialism, in which the narrator himself plays a
brilliantly versatile role as a serio-comic observer. Although
subtitled A Novel without a Hero, Vanity Fair follows the fortunes
of two contrasting but inter-linked lives: through the retiring
Amelia Sedley and the brilliant Becky Sharp, Thackeray examines the
position of women in an intensely exploitative male world. When
Vanity Fair was published in 1848, Charlotte Bronte commented: 'The
more I read Thackeray'sworks the more certain I am that he stands
alone - alone in his sagacity, alone in his truth, alone in his
feeling... Thackeray is a Titan.'
This chronology is designed to provide a digest of Conrad's life as
it develops from year to year. It is written as a series of diary
or chronicle entries and thus caters for the reader who may wish to
check a single fact. The main contents are supplemented by a "Who's
Who" and indexes.
This chronology is designed to provide a digest of Conrad's life as
it develops from year to year. It is written as a series of diary
or chronicle entries and thus caters for the reader who may wish to
check a single fact. The main contents are supplemented by a "Who's
Who" and indexes which provide easy access to a wider range of
information.
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Heart of Darkness (Hardcover)
Joseph Conrad; Edited by Owen Knowles, Allan H. Simmons
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R2,421
Discovery Miles 24 210
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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.
'Youth', Heart of Darkness and 'The End of the Tether' make up
Conrad's most celebrated collection of short narratives. Heart of
Darkness forms its sombre centrepiece: set in the Congo of the
1890s, this haunting and widely influential Modernist masterpiece
explores the limits of human experience as well as the nightmarish
realities and consequences of imperialism. The Cambridge edition
presents this trio of stories and Conrad's preface to the
collection in forms more authoritative than any so far published.
The introduction situates the stories in Conrad's publishing
career, traces their sources and surveys contemporary reception.
The edition includes detailed explanatory and contextual notes, a
glossary of nautical terms, maps and illustrations. A textual essay
and comprehensive apparatus reveal the history of each story's
composition, revision and publication. This volume will allow
scholars to see these familiar stories in a fresh light, by
returning to Conrad's original texts.
The very successful Oxford Reader's Companion series, described recently in the TLS as 'scholarly, ambitious and scrupulous', is now available in paperback. 'Lively and thorough' says the Library Journal of the Oxford Reader's Companion to Conrad. Bringing together all of the best scholarship around on this compelling and complex figure in English literature, this handy paperback edition of thisCompanion will prove invaluable to students of 19th-century Victorian fiction.
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