Penguin Classics Heart of Darkness/The Congo Diary, (Paperback)

from Ma_Washigeri

Very powerful. I already want to keep going back and dipping in to odd pages. I shall have to look out for my own copy as this one is going back to the library. The odd thing is how contemporary it all sounds, I'm having trouble placing the book in 1899, and the introduction Joseph Conrad wrote i...

from Ma_Washigeri

Very powerful. I already want to keep going back and dipping in to odd pages. I shall have to look out for my own copy as this one is going back to the library. The odd thing is how contemporary it all sounds, I'm having trouble placing the book in 1899, and the introduction Joseph Conrad wrote i...

from champerdamper

"The offing was barred by a black bank of clouds, and the tranquil waterway leading to the uttermost ends of the earth flowed sombre under an overcast sky-seemed to lead into the heart of an immense darkness". Thus ends Joseph Conrad's novel Heart of Darkness: the imagery of the obscured distance...

from urhockey22

Incredible book, if difficult to read. I hated it the first time and could not put it down the second time.

from theokester

I'm somewhat torn. The English Major in me would really like to give this book a higher rating. The reader in me has a hard time doing so. I read this book back in High School and could honestly not remember anything about the plot, the reading or the discussions aside from the fact that the stor...