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Two of Conrad’s BEST-KNOWN works—in a single volume In this pair of literary voyages into the inner self, Joseph Conrad has written two of the most chilling, disturbing, and noteworthy pieces of fiction of the twentieth century.
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Heart of Darkness
by Joseph Conrad (Author)Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness was first published in 1899 in serial form in London’s Blackwood’s Magazine. Loosely based on Conrad’s firsthand experience of rescuing a company agent from a remote station in the heart of the Congo, the novel...
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The Secret Sharer
by Joseph Conrad
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“The horror...The horror!”
Colonel Kurtz
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“And this also,” said Marlow suddenly, “has been one of the dark places of the earth.”
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On my right hand there were lines of fishing stakes resembling a mysterious system of half-submerged bamboo fences, incomprehensible in its division of the domain of tropical fishes, and crazy of aspect as if abandoned forever by some nomad tribe of fishermen now gone to the other end of the ocean; for there was no sign of human habitation as far as the eye could reach.
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- Joseph Conrad (Author)
Other Contributors:
- Joyce Carol Oates (Introduction)
- Vince Passaro (Afterword)
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Original Language: English
Publisher: Signet Classics
Country: Add the country of publication.
Publication Date: 1983
ISBN: 0451523210
Page Count: 160
Publisher: Signet Classics
Country: Add the country of publication.
Publication Date: 1983
ISBN: 0451523210
Page Count: 160
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- Dewey: 823.912
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- Books › Literature & Fiction › World Literature › British › Classics › Conrad, Joseph
- Books › Literature & Fiction › Authors, A-Z › ( C ) › Conrad, Joseph
- Books › Literature & Fiction › Authors, A-Z › ( O ) › Oates, Joyce Carol
- Books › Literature & Fiction › Classics
- Books › Literature & Fiction › Classics
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