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Heart of Darkness

Contents

  • The Text of Heart of Darkness
  • Author’s Note
  • Heart of Darkness
  • Background and Sources
  • THE CONGO
    • A Map of the Congo Free State, 1890
    • Maurice N. Henness, [The Congo Free State: A Brief History, 1876 to 1908]
    • Sir Harry Johnston, [George Grenfell: A Missionary in the Congo]
    • John Hope Franklin, Stalking George Washington Williams
    • George Washington Williams, A Report upon the Congo-State and Country to the President of the Republic of the United States of America
    • John Hope Franklin, [William’s "Open Letter" to Leopold and the "Railway Report"]
    • George Washington Williams, An Open Letter to his Serene
    • Majesty Leopold II, King of the Belgians and Sovereign of the Independent State of Congo
    • George Washington Williams, A Report on the Proposed Congo Railway
    • John Hope Franklin, [Williams Ignored]
    • John DeCourcy MacDonnell, [The Visionary King]
    • Richard Harding Davis( [His Brother’s Keeper]
    • King Leopold II, [The Sacred Mission of Civilization]
    • A Map of Zaire, 1987
    • Lynne Rice, Zaire, from Colony to Nation: A Brief History, 1908 to 1987
  • CONRAD IN THE CONGO
    • Muriel C. Bradbrook, [Conrad: A Biographical Sketch]
    • Joseph Conrad, Geography and Some Explorers
    • Joseph Conrad, ["When I Grow Up I Shall Go There"]
    • Joseph Conrad, Extracts from Correspondence, January 16 to June 18, 1890
    • Zdislaw Najder, [Introduction to "The Congo Diary" and the "Up-River Book"]
    • Joseph Conrad, The Congo Diary
    • Joseph Conrad, Up-River Book
    • Joseph Conrad, [Stanley Falls, Early September 1890]
    • Joseph Conrad, Extracts from Correspondence, September 24 and 26, 1890
    • G. Jean-Aubry, [Marguerite Poradowska’s Letter to Albert Thys]
    • G. Jean-Aubry, [Letter from Conrad’s Uncle]
    • Joseph Conrad, [Two Final Notes]
    • Albert J. Guerard, [From Life to Art]
  • WRITING THE STORY
    • G. Jean-Aubry, [From Sailor to Novelist]
    • Edward Garnett, [Art Drawn from Memory]
    • Richard Curle, [His Piercing Memory]
    • Ford Madox Ford, [The Setting]
    • Joseph Conrad, Extracts from Correspondence, July 22, 1896, to December 3, 1902
    • Ford Madox Ford, [The Ending]
    • Conrad’s Manuscript of Heart of Darkness
      "Oh! The horror!"
      "Mistah Kurtz-he dead."
      "The last word he pronounced was-your name."
      ... into the heart of an immense darkness.
  • CONRAD ON LIFE AND ART
    • [Fidelity: Four Notes]
    • [The Cruel Sea]
    • [The Faithful River]
    • [The World of the Living]
    • [To Make You See]
    • Books
    • [Fiction is Human History]
    • [The Symbolic Character of Fiction]
    • [Explicitness Is Fatal to Art]
    • [My Manner of Telling]
    • Arthur Symons, [Every Novel Contains Autobiography]
  • Criticism
  • Robert F. Haugh, [Heart of Darkness: Problem for Critics]
  • Albert J. Guerard, The Journey Within
  • Chinua Achebe, An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness
  • Wilson Harris, The Frontier on Which Heart of Darkness Stands
  • Frances B. Singh, The Colonialistic Bias of Heart of Darkness
  • C.P. Sarvan, Racism and the Heart of Darkness
  • Mike Wilmington, Worth the Wait: Apocalypse Now
  • Robert LaBrasca, Two Visions of "The horror!"
  • William M. Hagen, Heart of Darkness and the Process of Apocalypse Now
  • E.N. Dorall, Conrad and Coppola: Different Centres of Darkness
  • Ian Watt, [Impressionism and Symbolism in Heart of Darkness]
  • Robert S. Baker, [Watt’s Conrad]
  • Bruce Johnson, Conrad’s Impressionism and Watt’s "Delayed Decoding"
  • Garrett Stewart, Lying as Dying in Heart of Darkness
  • Juliet McLauchlan, The "Value" and "Significance" of Heart of Darkness
  • Michael Levenson, The Value of Facts in Heart of Darkness
  • Robert Kimbrough, Conrad’s Youth (1902): An Introduction
  • A Guide to Bibliography

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