Heart of Darkness

A newly edited and richly annotated version of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, now considered a classic of early modernism.

List of contents

List of maps; Acknowledgements; Introduction; A note on the text; Select bibliography; Chronology; Abbreviations and note on editions; Heart of Darkness; Appendices; Notes; Glossary of nautical terms.

About the author

Owen Knowles, Research Fellow at the University of Hull, is the author of A Conrad Chronology (2014), An Annotated Critical Bibliography of Joseph Conrad (1992) and the Oxford Reader's Companion to Conrad (with Gene M. Moore, 2000). Advisory Editor to The Conradian: The Journal of the Joseph Conrad Society, he has also edited a number of works for the Cambridge Edition of Conrad's Works, Everyman Library and Penguin Books, and has also edited Volumes 6 and 9 of The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad (Cambridge, 2002, 2007) as well as two volumes of correspondence to and about Conrad.Allan H. Simmons, Professor of English at St Mary's University, Twickenham, London, is the author of Joseph Conrad (2006) in Palgrave's Critical Issues series and the readers guide Conrad's Heart of Darkness (2007). As well as editing Joseph Conrad in Context (Cambridge, 2009) and Joseph Conrad: Contemporary Reviews, Volume 1 (Cambridge, 2012), he has edited a number of Conrad's works for the Cambridge Edition of the Works of Joseph Conrad, of which he is General Editor, Everyman Library and Penguin Books. He is an Advisory Editor to The Conradian: The Journal of the Joseph Conrad Society.

Summary

Offering a freshly-researched text based on Conrad's original documents, this edition presents a classic of early modernist fiction in a version that recovers the writer's preferred wordings, punctuation and narrative structure. The text is supported by a rich context of ancillary documents and annotation, including introduction, appendices and notes.

Product details

• Authors: Joseph Conrad
• Assisted by: Owen Knowles (Editor), Owen (University of Hull) Knowles (Editor), Knowles Owen (Editor), Allan H. Simmons (Editor), Allan H. (St Mary's University Simmons (Editor), Allan H. (St Mary's University College Simmons (Editor), Simmons Allan H. (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2018
• EAN: 9781108451673
• ISBN: 978-1-108-45167-3
• No. of pages: 280
• Series: The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Joseph Conrad; Cambridge Edition of the Works; Cambridge Edition of the Works
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Literaturwissenschaft, Englisch, Irland, Vereinigtes Königreich, Großbritannien, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), England / Sprache, Großbritannien / Roman, Erzählung, Classic fiction: general and literary