Heart of Darkness (edit title)

Alexander D edited the characters of Heart of Darkness 3 weeks ago.

• Changed the section title: Cast of Characters/Important People
• Added a character: Kurtz
• Added a character: Marlow

Kevin approved Timothy Gray’s request to change the title of Heart of Darkness Saturday, October 31 2009.

Shelfari edited the first sentence of Heart of Darkness Saturday, September 26 2009.

• For this editionHe was an inch, perhaps two, under six feet, powerfully built, and he advanced straight at you with a slight stoop of Heart of Darkness, I have used as copy-textthe text that appeared in Youth: A Narrative;shoulders, head forward, and Two Other Stories, published by Blackwood's in 1902.a fixed from-under stare which made you think of a charging bull.

Timothy Gray approved 91% of Lucia C’s request to combine 23 books, including Heart of Darkness, Friday, September 25 2009. (show what wasn’t approved) (hide what wasn’t approved)

Lucia C submitted a request to combine 23 books, including Heart of Darkness, Friday, September 25 2009.

Tim W edited the summary of Heart of Darkness Thursday, September 17 2009.

• Freed from the constraints of European morality, a man confronts the underlying nature of humanity. Madness ensures.

Tim W edited the ridiculously simplified synopsis of Heart of Darkness Thursday, September 17 2009.

• Added: Freed from the constraints of European morality, a man confronts the underlying nature of humanity. Madness ensures

Tim W edited the books influenced by this book of Heart of Darkness Thursday, September 17 2009.

• Added Things Fall Apart: A Novel

Tim W edited the quotations of Heart of Darkness Thursday, September 17 2009.

• Added a quotation: “I think the knowledge came to him at last — only at the very last. But the wilderness had found him out early, and had taken on him a terrible vengeance for the fantastic invasion. I think it had whispered to him things about himself which he did not know, things of which he had no conception till he took counsel with this great solitude — and the whisper had proved irresistibly fascinating.”
• Added a quotation: “Anything approaching the change that came over his features I have never seen before, and hope never to see again. Oh, I wasn’t touched. I was fascinated. It was as though a veil had been rent. I saw on that ivory face the expression of somber pride, of ruthless power, of craven terror — of an intense and hopeless despair. Did he live his life again in every detail of desire, temptation, and surrender during that supreme moment of complete knowledge? He cried in a whisper at some image, at some vision, — he cried out twice, a cry that was no more than a breath — ‘The horror! The horror!’”
• Added a quotation: “The earth seemed unearthly. We are accustomed to look upon the shackled form of a conquered monster, but there — there you could look at a thing monstrous and free. It was unearthly, and the men were, — No, they were not inhuman. Well, you know, that was the worst of it — this suspicion of their not being inhuman. It would come slowly to one. They howled, and leaped, and spun, and made horrid faces; but what thrilled you was just the thought of their humanity — like yours — the thought of your remote kinship with this wild and passionate uproar.”
• Added a quotation: “Ugly. Yes, it was ugly enough; but if you were man enough you would admit to yourself that there was in you just the faintest trace of a response to the terrible frankness of that noise, a dim suspicion of there being a meaning in it which you — you so remote from the night of first ages — could comprehend. And why not? The mind of man is capable of anything — because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future. What was there after all? Joy, fear, sorrow, devotion, valour, rage — who can tell? — but truth — truth stripped of its cloak of time. Let the fool gape and shudder — the man knows, and can look on without a wink. But he must at least be as much of a man as these on the shore. He must meet that truth with his own true stuff — with his own inborn strength. Principles? Principles won’t do. Acquisitions, clothes, pretty rags — rags that would fly off at the first good shake. No; you want a deliberate belief.”

Timothy Gray changed the title of Heart of Darkness Friday, August 28 2009.