“Your strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others.” Polish-born English novelist Joseph Conrad’s powerful and controversial novella, Heart of Darkness, was first published in serialized form in 1899 in Blackwoods Magazine. Set mainly in the Belgian Congo, the novella explores the debilitating impact of colonization on the colonizer and the colonized. The unreliable narrator of the story, English sailor Charles Marlow is hired by a Belgian company to captain a steamer in the newly established Congo Free State. Intrigued by rumours about another company employee named Kurtz, who is said to be posted in the interior, Marlow sails upriver in search of him. During the journey and in his encounter with Kurtz, Marlow gets to see the “barren darkness” of men’s hearts and the horror and brutality colonizers have unleashed on the African heartland. Many post-colonial writers such as Chinua Achebe have criticized the racist overtones of Conrad’s portrayal of African culture and society. The novella also inspired Francis Ford Copolla’s epic Vietnam war film, Apocalypse Now (1979).
The Three Hostages
John Buchan
Wordsworth Edition Ltd
The Great Short Novels Of Henry James
Philip Rahv
Jaico Publishing House, India
Journey To The East
Hermann Hesse
Book Faith India
Demons Vintage Classics
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Vintage Books/Penguin Random House Group
Timequake
Kurt Vonnegut
A Farewell To Arms Vintage Classics
Ernest Hemingway
Penguin Random House Group
True At First Light
Arrow Books/Penguin Random House
Cakes And Ale
W. Somerset Maugham
Afetr The Banquet
Yukio Mishima
Far Eastern Tales
Fill up your details to notify you when this book will be available