Everyman's Library Classics Series: Heart of Darkness : Introduction by Verlyn Klinkenborg (Hardcover)

from DeltaQueen50

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad is an icon of a book, and one that up to now I have avoided as my thinking was that it would be too high-brow, too literate for me. Due to encouragement from fell...

from SanctiSpiritus

The fiction, and the non-fiction. The prose are not for the unexperienced reader. Part of this great story explains of the ills of colonialism at the turn of the century. It posits probably, an acc...

from 50MinuteMermaid

A tortured last gasp of old-school (Old World?) colonialism, I wish this book could serve as a lesson to so many people and on so many levels; How NOT To Represent People Of Color, What Imperialism...

from LisaMorr

Wow - what a book. It's short - 117 pages, and I wanted it to be longer. I was savoring every page. The descriptions were amazing. I was a little worried after reading 7-8 pages, it was very bleh. ...

from sarah_rubyred

The copy I read had a fantastic introduction, and contained footnotes referring to Conrad's own trip to the Congo, showing how much of this is autobiographical. I would recommend this version to an...