A Norton Critical Edition
"This is the best Norton Critical Edition yet! All my students are becoming intensely interested in reading Conrad-largely because of this excellent work."-Elise F. Knapp, Western Connecticut State University
Omschrijving
This edition includes a newly edited text based on the 1902 edition. Textual History and Editing Principles provides an overview of the controversies and ambiguities surrounding Heart of Darkness. Included are background and source materials, and contemporary responses to the novella along with essays in criticism, including a new section on film adaptations.
Productspecificaties
- Auteur: Joseph Conrad
- Serie: Norton Critical Editions
- Uitgever: WW Norton & Co
- Verschijningsdatum: 2016-09-02
- Aantal pagina's: 504
- ISBN: 9780393264869
- Thema: Classic fiction: literary and general
- BISAC: FICTION / Classics
Over de auteur
JOSEPH CONRAD was born in Polish Ukraine on December 3, 1857, with the name Jozef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski. Orphaned at the age of eleven, Conrad spent the remainder of his youth in Switzerland and Cracow before joining the French marines. In 1878, he enlisted in the British Merchant Navy. Following sixteen years of service, Conrad launched his literary career in England. He published many novels and stories, including Lord Jim (1900), Nostromo (1904), and most famously, The Heart of Darkness (1899), inspired by his steamboat voyage on the Congo River. Although English was his third language (after Polish and French), Conrad's rich and distinctive prose established him as one of England's greatest novelists. Conrad died on August 3, 1924, in Kent, England. Paul B. Armstrong is Professor of English and former Dean of the College at Brown University. He was previously a professor and a…