Heart of Darkness: A Norton Critical Edition (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780393264869)

This Norton Critical Edition includes:
- A newly edited text based on the first English book edition (1902), the last version to which Conrad is known to have actively contributed. "Textual History and Editing Principles" provides an overview of the textual controversies and ambiguities perpetually surrounding Heart of Darkness.
- Background and source materials on colonialism and the Congo, nineteenth-century attitudes toward race, Conrad in the Congo, and Conrad on art and literature.
- Fifteen illustrations.
- Seven contemporary responses to the novella along with eighteen essays in criticism--ten of them new to the Fifth Edition,
including an entirely new subsection on film adaptations of Heart of Darkness.
- A Chronology and an updated Selected Bibliography.

Author: Joseph Conrad
ISBN-10: 0393264866
ISBN-13: 9780393264869
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Language: English
Published: 09/02/2016
Pages: 504
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.10w x 1.10d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 9
Point Value: 10
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 8659 / Heart of Darkness