The Heart Of Darkness & The Secret Agent
NEW––BroDart Dust Jacket Cover
Author: Joseph Conrad
New York Public Library Collector's Edition
Doubleday
©1997 The New York Public Library
CAB Comment––This New York Public Library Collector's Edition of “The Heart Of Darkness” and “The Secret Agent” by Jospeh Conrad is outstanding. The stories are accompanied by excellent illustrations/photos as well as a selection of intriguing documents culled from the archives of The New York Public Library, including excerpts from the original corrected typescript of “The Heart of Darkness” and the author's letters. For anyone who doesn’t know, Francis For Coppola’s Academy Award winning “Apocalypse Now” is a cinematic retelling of Conrad’s original novel. When I read “The Heart Of Darkness”, after knowing Coppola’s film quite well, I have to say I was completely blown away by Jospeh Conrad’s descriptions and storytelling expertise. For anyone who appreciates a chilling and disturbing literary journey, you will not go wrong with this volume––“The horror! The horror!”
“The Heart Of Darkness”––GoodReads Synopsis:
“‘Heart of Darkness’, a novel by Joseph Conrad, was originally a three-part series in Blackwood's Magazine in 1899. It is a story within a story, following a character named Charlie Marlow, who recounts his adventure to a group of men onboard an anchored ship. The story told is of his early life as a ferry boat captain. Although his job was to transport ivory downriver, Charlie develops an interest in investing an ivory procurement agent, Kurtz, who is employed by the government. Preceded by his reputation as a brilliant emissary of progress, Kurtz has now established himself as a god among the natives in “one of the darkest places on earth.” Marlow suspects something else of Kurtz: he has gone mad. A reflection on corruptive European colonialism and a journey into the nightmare psyche of one of the corrupted, ‘Heart of Darkness’ is considered one of the most influential works ever written.”
“The Secret Agent”––GoodReads Synopsis:
“Mr Verloc, the secret agent, keeps a shop in London's Soho where he lives with his wife Winnie, her infirm mother, and her idiot brother, Stevie. When Verloc is reluctantly involved in an anarchist plot to blow up the Greenwich Observatory things go disastrously wrong, and what appears to be "a simple tale" proves to involve politicians, policemen, foreign diplomats, and London's fashionable society in the darkest and most surprising interrelations. Based on the text which Conrad's first English readers enjoyed, this new edition includes a full and up-to-date bibliography, a comprehensive chronology and a critical introduction which describes Conrad's great London novel as the realization of a "monstrous town," a place of idiocy, madness, criminality, and savage butchery. It also discusses contemporary anarchist activity in the UK, imperialism, and Conrad's narrative techniques.”
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