Heart of Darkness and Selected Short Fic - Joseph Conrad [0]
FROM THE PAGES OF HEART OF DARKNESS AND SELECTED SHORT FICTION
Title Page
Copyright Page
JOSEPH CONRAD
THE WORLD OF JOSEPH CONRAD
Introduction
A NOTE ON THE TEXTS
AUTHOR’S NOTE
YOUTH
HEART OF DARKNESS
- I -
-II-
- III -
AMY FOSTER
THE SECRET SHARER
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—II—
ENDNOTES
INSPIRED BY HEART OF DARKNESS
COMMENTS & QUESTIONS
FOR FURTHER READING
FROM THE PAGES OF HEART OF DARKNESS AND SELECTED SHORT FICTION
This could have occurred nowhere but in England, where men and sea interpenetrate, so to speak—the sea entering into the life of most men, and the men knowing something or everything about the sea, in the way of amusement, of travel, or of bread-winning. (from “Youth,” page 7)
Only a moment; a moment of strength, of romance, of glamour—of youth! (from “Youth,” page 36)
What greatness had not floated on the ebb of that river into the mystery of an unknown earth! ... The dreams of men, the seed of commonwealths, the germs of empires. (from Heart of Darkness, page 39)
The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much.
(from Heart of Darkness, page 51 )
In and out of rivers, streams of death in life, whose banks were rotting into mud, whose waters, thickened into slime, invaded the contorted mangroves, that seemed to writhe at us in the extremity of an impotent despair. Nowhere did we stop long enough to get a particularized impression, but the general sense of vague and oppressive wonder grew upon me. It was like a weary pilgrimage amongst hints for nightmares.
(from Heart of Darkness, page 50)
They were dying slowly—it was very clear. They were not enemies, they were not criminals, they were nothing earthly now,—nothing but black shadows of disease and starvation, lying confusedly in the greenish gloom. (from Heart of Darkness, page 53)
It is impossible to convey the life-sensation of any given epoch of one’s existence—that which makes its truth, its meaning—its subtle and penetrating essence. It is impossible. We live, as we dream—alone.
(from Heart of Darkness, page 65)
I don’t like work—no man does—but I like what is in the work,—the chance to find yourself. Your own reality—for yourself, not for others—what no other man can ever know. They can only see the mere show, and never can tell what it really means.
(from Heart of Darkness, page 66)
The reaches opened before us and closed behind, as if the forest had stepped leisurely across the water to bar the way for our return. We penetrated deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness.
(from Heart of Darkness, page 75)
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Heart of Darkness and “Youth” were originally published in Blackwood’s Edinburgh
Magazine (in 1899 and 1898, respectively), and together collected in volume form
in 1902. “Amy Foster” was first published in 1901 in the Illustrated London News,
and “The Secret Sharer” first appeared in Harper’s Magazine in 1910.
The present texts derive from Doubleday’s collected editions of
Conrad’s works, published in 1920-1921.
Originally published in mass market format in 2003 by Barnes & Noble Classics
with new Introduction, Note on the Texts, Map, Notes, Biography, Chronology,
Inspired By, Comments & Questions, and For Further Reading.
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