Heart of Darkness

Acclaimed illustrator Peter Kuper delivers a visually immersive and profound adaptation of Joseph Conrad’s enduring classic.

About the author

JOSEPH CONRAD was born in Polish Ukraine on December 3, 1857, with the name Józef 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.Peter Kuper wrote the Eisner Award–winning Ruins and critically acclaimed adaptations of Alice in Wonderland, Heart of Darkness, and Metamorphosis. He founded the political anthology World War 3 Illustrated, writes and draws Mad magazine’s Spy vs. Spy, and taught Harvard University’s first class dedicated to graphic novels and comics.
 

Summary

“[A] triumph of graphic art [and] a compelling work of literary interpretation.”—Maya Jasanoff, Coolidge Professor of History, Harvard University, from the Foreword

Product details

• Authors: Joseph Conrad, Conrad Joseph, Maya Jasanoff, Peter Kuper
• Assisted by: Peter Kuper (Editor), Jasanoff Maya (Foreword)
• Publisher: Norton
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.2020
• EAN: 9780393358438
• ISBN: 978-0-393-35843-8
• No. of pages: 160
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 10 mm x 233 mm
• Weight: 368 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Comic, cartoon, humour, satire; FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), Literature - Classics / Criticism, Graphic Novels, COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Literary, COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Adaptations, Classic fiction: general and literary, Graphic novel / Comic book / Manga: Literary adaptations, American style / tradition comic books