Book Description
In Heart of Darkness, Captain Marlowe must wend his way up the African Congo to
recover the missing Colonel Kurtz in one of the greatest steamship adventures ever told. As Marlowe’s ship Nellie scrapes along the Congo, the voyage into the human soul, like the morass of steaming foliage along the banks, becomes increasingly dark and perilous.

In addition to the Marlowe tales Heart of Darkness and Youth, this new volume includes Conrad’s classic doppelganger tale The Secret Sharer and the lesser known “Amy Foster.”

Michael Matin is a professor in the English Department of Warren Wilson College
in Asheville, North Carolina.

Includes an Original Map of the Congo.

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One of the most haunting stories ever written, Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness follows Marlow, a riverboat captain, on a voyage into the African Congo at the height of European colonialism. Astounded by the brutal depravity he witnesses, Marlow becomes obsessed with meeting Kurtz, a famously idealistic and able man stationed farther along the river. What he finally discovers, however, is a horror beyond imagining. Heart of Darkness is widely regarded as a masterpiece for its vivid study of human nature and the greed and ruthlessness of imperialism.

This collection also includes three of Conrad’s finest short stories: “Youth,” the author’s largely autobiographical tale of a young man’s ill-fated sea voyage, in which Marlow makes his first appearance, “The Secret Sharer,” and “Amy Forster.”

A. Michael Matin is a professor in the English Department of Warren Wilson College in Asheville, North Carolina. He has published articles on various twentieth-century British and postcolonial writers.