More than a century after its publication(1899),Heart of Darkness remains an indisputably classic text and argualy Conrad's finest work.
This Notron Critical Edition is again based on Robert Kimbrough's meticulously re-edited text of the novel.An expanded Textual Appendix alows the reder to follow Conrad's revisions at different stages of the creative process.A Chronology has been added,and the Selected Bibli-ography has been revised and updated.
Introduction
The Text of Heart of Darkness
Heart of Darkness
Textual Appendix
Backgrounds and Contexts
IMPERIALISM IN THE CONGO
Encyclopedia Britannica·"Congo Free State" (Tenth Edition, 1902)
[European Reaction to Leopold’s Abuses] (Eleventh Edition, 1910)
King Leopold II·[The Sacred Mission of Civilization]
George Washington Williams·"An Open Letter to his Serene Majesty Leopold II"
Roger Casement·The Congo Report
Edmund D. Morel·[Property and Trade versus Forced Production]
Adam Hochschild·"Meeting Mr. Kurtz"
Alan Simmons·[Conrad, Casement, and the Congo Atrocities]
ILLUSTRATIONS
NINETEENH-CENTURY ATTITUDES TOWARD RACE
C.W.F.Hegel·[The African Character]
Charles Darwin·On the Races of Man
Alfred Russel Wallace·[Are Humans One Race or Many?]
Francis Galton·The Comparativve Worth of Different Races
Benjamin Kidd·[Social Progress and the Rivalry of the Races]
Peter Edgerly Firchow·Race,Ethnicity,Nationality,Empire
CONRAD IN THE CONGO
THE AUTHOR ON ART AND LITERATURE
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Criticism
CONTEMPORARY RESPONSES
Edward Garnett·From Academy and Literature
Unsigned Review·From the Manchester Guardian
Unsigned Review·From the Times Literary Supplement
Unsigned Review·From the Athenaeum
John Masefield·From the Speaker
Henry James·The New Novel
E.M. Forster·Joseph Conrad: A Note
Ford Madox Ford·A Personal Remembrance
Virginia Woolf·Joseph Conrad
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Joseph Conrad:A Chronology
Selected Bibliography