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Heart of Darkness: A Norton Critical Edition: 0 Paperback – 28 October 2016

by Joseph Conrad (Author), Paul B. Armstrong (Author)
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This Norton Critical Edition includes:

- A newly edited text based on the first English book edition (1902), the last version to which Conrad is known to have actively contributed. "Textual History and Editing Principles" provides an overview of the textual controversies and ambiguities perpetually surrounding Heart of Darkness.

- Background and source materials on colonialism and the Congo, nineteenth-century attitudes toward race, Conrad in the Congo, and Conrad on art and literature.

- Fifteen illustrations.

- Seven contemporary responses to the novella along with eighteen essays in criticism-ten of them new to the Fifth Edition,

including an entirely new subsection on film adaptations of Heart of Darkness.

- A Chronology and an updated Selected Bibliography.

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  4. Publisher
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  5. Publication date
    28 October 2016
  6. Language
    English
  7. Dimensions
    12.95 x 2.79 x 21.34 cm
  8. Print length
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Paul B. Armstrong is Professor of English and former Dean of the College at Brown University. He was previously a professor and a dean at the University of Oregon and the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He has also taught at the University of Copenhagen, Georgia Institute of Technology, the Free University of Berlin, the University of Virginia, and the Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts. He is the author of How Literature Plays with the Brain: The Neuroscience of Reading and Art; Play and the Politics of Reading: The Social Uses of Modernist Form; Conflicting Readings: Variety and Validity in Interpretation; The Challenge of Bewilderment: Understanding and Representation in James, Conrad, and Ford; and The Phenomenology of Henry James. He is editor of the Norton Critical Edition of E. M. Forster's Howards End and of the fourth and fifth Norton Critical Editions of Heart of Darkness.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ W. W. Norton & Company
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ 28 October 2016
  • Edition ‏ : ‎ 5th
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 504 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0393264866
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0712354851
  • Item weight ‏ : ‎ 1.05 kg
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 12.95 x 2.79 x 21.34 cm
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  • Brian Borjeson
    5.0 out of 5 stars It was a good read
    Reviewed in Australia on 28 March 2019
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  • serena
    5.0 out of 5 stars Perfetto
    Reviewed in Italy on 20 August 2023
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    Stupendo, l'ho preso x la mia tesi sul romanzo di Conrad e questo, non solo contiene il testo in inglese, ma è un edizione critica contenente pensieri e riflessioni dei critici sull'opera oltre a pensieri sul concetto di razza, sfruttamento e i temi del romanzo.
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  • R. Clark
    2.0 out of 5 stars Pages numbers are corrupted - not good for an academic book.
    Reviewed in Germany on 11 October 2018
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    This is an academic text of the novel with essays on historical background and critical essays. The hard copy of the work that Norton produces is excellent. Unfortunately, the Kindle version is very amateurish. In the marketing it is claimed that the pages in the electrical version match the paperback: they don't. There are 72 pages for the novel itself in the kindle version and 77 pages in the paperback version.

    Further, that is the end of the page numbering in the Kindle version, it ends at page 73 - and the rest of the book is all page 73. Obviously this is not helpful, since the paperback has 478 pages!

    I give the book two stars just for the fact that a Kindle version exists, but really, Norton needs work on this and upgrade it so that the pages correspond effectively. I would like an upgrade as soon as possible.
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    Reviewed in Canada on 18 September 2020
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    The book is very interesting and it was worth the amount that I paid!
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    5.0 out of 5 stars Incredible and deserving of its reputation
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 31 March 2021
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    I knew this book by reputation for many years and thought that I knew the ending having studied A Handful of Dust for ‘A’ Level. It lived up to its reputation and I can imagine spending many hours thinking about it. It is beautiful and bleak. Full of existential horror and vivid detail. It conveys what I imagine it must have been like for the first Western European men to explore the heart of Africa. It uses language and expresses attitudes consistent with a time of great ignorance and intolerance but without giving a sense that these are acceptable. Indeed it is sympathetic to the people that were first encountered by explorers at the same time as portraying their complete ‘otherness’ to the type of man used to plundering for wealth and having his word accepted as law.
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    5.0 out of 5 stars A haunting potrait of colonialism
    Reviewed in India on 30 June 2021
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    Whilst traditionally, literature on the horrors of colonialism focuses chiefly on the destruction visited upon the natives that people the unfortunate land -- and rightly so -- Heart of Darkness is perhaps unique in its examination of its impact on the ostensibly "civilized" colonizer. Conrad's lyrical prose and Marlow's struggle for expression accentuate the abject horrors of colonialsm : an enterprise mutually destructive to the colonizer and the colonized.
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