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Heart of Darkness Paperback – December 5, 2013

by Joseph Conrad (Author)

3.3 19 ratings

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• This e-book publication is unique which includes exclusive Introduction, Historical Background and handcrafted additional content. • This edition also includes detailed Biography and Notes. • A new table of contents with working links has been included by a publisher. • This edition has been corrected for spelling and grammatical errors.

Print length

42 pages
Language

English
Publication date

December 5, 2013
Dimensions

8.5 x 0.1 x 11 inches
ISBN-10

1493698486
ISBN-13

978-1493698486
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Publisher ‏ : ‎ CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (December 5, 2013)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 42 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1493698486
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1493698486
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 6.2 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.5 x 0.1 x 11 inches

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Val

Too big

Reviewed in the United States on August 22, 2014

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Book was wayy too big, like the size of a magazine. and you could tell the cover was blown out of proportion to make it that large. was not expecting the book to be that big, was expecting a book the size of a NORMAL book.

Reviewed in the United States on June 11, 2014

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I ordered this for my daughter's high school required summer reading. We were very surprised to see that it is actually the size of a notebook (8.5 x 11). Not what she wanted or expected. I think that the description should emphasize that the size of the book is not a normal sized paperback.

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Gisa L.

Blurry, strangely-sized floppy copy.

Reviewed in the United States on August 19, 2014

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Heart of Darkness is a classic. Upon receipt of this copy, I was shocked to see that it looks like a bound PDF, complete with giant, printer paper sized pages as well as the cover (which I originally thought was great looking) looking very blurry due to the upsizing done by the printer. I suggest buying a real copy. This one looks like someone took a royalty-free text and printed it cheaply.

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Kinch-

I thought I was getting a Dover Thrift Edition, ...

Reviewed in the United States on January 16, 2015

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I thought I was getting a Dover Thrift Edition, but what I got was a book about the size and quality of a magazine. It is poory formatted and hard to read...I would strongly suggest not getting this copy!!!

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Lance Cox

... book with small print but it is still a good read for a great

Reviewed in the United States on August 15, 2014

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it is a long flat book with small print but it is still a good read for a great price

Reviewed in the United States on August 28, 2014

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The font size is painfully small.

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Blue fix

Horrible! Small 8pt font renders the book nearly unreadable

Reviewed in the United States on August 30, 2014

Horrible! Small 8pt font renders the book nearly unreadable. Kearning seems to have been condensed as well. Bought for a Lit class. NARROW margins. NO room to highlight, underline or annotate. DO Not buy this version.

Reviewed in the United States on May 27, 2014

One long snoozefest that luckily does not exceed much past 200 pages. Even so, this book was a sticky read. I am a firm believer in reading classic literature on a regular or semi-regular basis so I always try to read one classic piece per 4-5 contemporaries. I also believe in finishing what I've started and typically will not abandon a book midway through no matter how mind-numbingly boring it may be.

Riverboat captain Marlow travels up the Congo river in search of a man named Kurtz, an idealistic business man supposedly with great connections. Along the way there is travesty and upset, cruelty and sickness. A number of adventures are embarked upon, usually appalling, and having none of the lightheartedness of Voltaire's Candide. Marlow finally reaches Kurtz, who is taken aboard the ship ill.

The primary themes are imperialism, racism, violence and inhumanity, all heavy topics. I felt nothing for any of the characters or the context in which the book was written. There are a trillion better ways to get your point across. This story was dry as a bone and bored me to tears. I can't even begin to imagine anyone enjoying this book.

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X.W.

Feverish delirium

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 6, 2014

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This is a very interesting book written with an almost hallucinogenic imagination. Conrad must be a bit feverish when he wrote the book as a result of some tropical disease from Africa. There is no shortage of metaphors and similes suggesting the vile and sinister sensations of living in a macabre land of the unknown, `no joy in the brilliance of sunshine,' as he put it. Nightmarish scenes are omnipresent, every sound signifies an alarm of danger, and every sight evokes feelings of disgust and fear. Conrad shows an extraordinary talent in his use of English vocabulary to add mood and atmosphere to his description of places and situations, accentuating the detrimental effect of the tropical environment, i.e. the heat, vegetation, animals, etc. to the mental and physical health of men. His choice of words is particularly strong in the realm of doom and gloom.

`The horror! The horror!' these are the final words of Kurtz, the hero (or anti-hero) of this book. Kurtz, a 19th century European trader, who had 'gone native' in Congo of West Africa, was regarded by the local tribal people as their God. But did he love them? We only found out at the end of his life about his true feelings towards these people who worshipped him, `Exterminate the brutes!' he said with such disgust. It is possible that he was referring to the cannibals as `brutes'. But it is hinted in the novel that Kurtz himself, while mingling with the natives, had probably participated in their cannibalistic feast. We get the feeling that he had since gone insane from the experience. Who wouldn't? He had contracted 'brain malaria' from eating human flesh!

Kurtz is a mystery, a mythology. Throughout the novel, there is hardly any clear depiction of Kurtz apart from the scene of his death. We only get glimpses of his personality from remarks made by other people who knew him. So who was Kurtz? Was he a solitary madman, a sad misanthrope who rejected European civilization and preferred to live with the natives and act as their protector and saviour? Was he a religious nut trying to civilize and humanize the `savages' with his own belief? Or was he just another ruthless colonial adventurer who dominated and manipulated the `simple' tribal people through his ingenuity and scheming? The answer is not entirely clear until we read part of his report on the 'Suppression of Savage Customs' (p.70).

The film 'Apocalypse Now' was supposedly based on this book with the story transposed to Vietnam in the 20th century. But my recommendations would go to 'Aguirre - Wrath of God' (1972) by Werner Herzog, and 'Queimada - Burn!'(1969) by Gillo Pontecorvo. Both these films made interesting statements on Colonialism.

Highly recommended.

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Jed Palmer

The quality of the image on the cover of this book is terrible, not to take anything away from the novella ...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 24, 2014

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If you are looking for a quality product I would not buy this release.
The quality of the image on the cover of this book is terrible, not to take anything away from the novella by Conrad.

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McDiggers

Excellent story but this is a terrible print.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 14, 2014

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The story is fantastic, an absolute classic worth reading but the print of the book is terrible.
The cover image was fuzzy and looked out of focus. An odd size, it was like a small magazine. The paper was cheap and it was the sort of quality that you could knock up yourself in a print shop.
Bought for a present and had to return it was such poor quality.

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Roy

How wrong can a simple book be..?

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 10, 2014

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I wish I'd read other reviews of this item before I bought it - at least it was cheap... How wrong can a simple book be?

Badly printed, weird magazine-like format... I had to order another 'proper' copy as this one was virtually unreadable.

Do not buy.

nuala rowe

Although I was very surprised to find it in an unusual format - like a magazine

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 5, 2014

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I guess there's nothing wrong with this product. Although I was very surprised to find it in an unusual format - like a magazine. Quite strange, but not a big deal.

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