Heart of Darkness (Norton Critical Editions)

from camarie

I know this is supposed to be one of the most respected and beloved fiction novels of all time, but I don't know why. Marlow, the main character, is hired to run a steamship up the Congo river to save Kurtz, a man that everyone admires. When reading this book, I feel as if I am sailing up the Con...

from shamille

Heart of Darkness is a ridiculous story about a ridiculous guy who travels down the Congo River to meet some other ridiculous english guy who lives in a jungle. The first guy (Marlow) is telling his story on a boat, to some other boat-people who are ridiculous enough to listen to him. Anyway, aft...

from japaul22

This was an interesting book to read, following closely on the heels of one of my last reads of 2012, the nonfiction book King Leopold's Ghost. Heart of Darkness itself is the long short story or novella that gives some of Conrad's observations of his 6 month trip through the Congo. To be honest,...

from richardderus

Book Circle Reads 19 Rating: 3 stars of five The Book Description: More than a century after its publication (1899), Heart of Darkness remains an indisputably classic text and arguably Conrad's finest work. This extensively revised Norton Critical Edition includes new materials that convey ninete...

from technodiabla

Just finished Heart of Darkness. I found it to be an interesting study from a psychological perspective and I would have enjoyed using it as a text in a psychology course to spur discussion around the complex and partially mysterious central figure-- most are so "text book". But I can't say that ...