Youth/Heart of Darkness/Typhoon (Modern Library) - Hardcover

Conrad, Joseph

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679424687 ISBN 13: 9780679424680

Publisher: Modern Library, 1993

Synopsis

Joseph Conrad came to writing after having been a sailor for nearly twenty years.  The three long stories in this volume were composed early in his literary career, a few years after a grueling sojourn in the Belgian Congo as the commander of a river steamer.  "Youth" (1898) is the first of Conrad's stories to feature Captain Marlow, later the narrator of "Heart of Darkness", Lord Jim, and Chance.  "Heart of Darkness" (1899), Marlow's story of his journey into the jungle to find Kurtz, the tormented white trader, becomes a multileveled commentary on colonialism, evil, and the unknown, emblemized in Kurtz's dying words:  "The horror!  The horror!"  The complex moral issues posed by these tales, and by "Typhoon" (1901), a masterpiece about a storm at sea, anticipated many of the concerns of the later twentieth century.  Francis Coppola appropriated Marlow and Kurtz for Apocalypse Now, his movie about the Vietnam War.

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"'Heart of Darkness,' which appeared at the very beginning of our century, was a Cassandra cry announcing the end of Victorian Europe, on the verge of transforming itself into the Europe of violence."
--Czeslaw Milosz

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About this edition

• Publisher: Modern Library
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0679424687
• ISBN 13: 9780679424680
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 294