Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a
series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan
Collector's Library are books to love and treasure. This elegant edition
features an afterword by Dr Keith Carabine, specialist in American literature
and former chair of the Joseph Conrad society.One night on the Thames, Charles
Marlowe tells his fellow sailors the vivid and brutal tale of his time as a
riverboat captain in the Belgian Congo. From the mists of London we are
whisked to the darkness of Africa's colonial heart - and into the thrall of
the tyrannical Kurtz, an ivory trader who has established himself as a
terrifying demi-god.Sinister and incisive, Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
has retained the fascination of readers and scholars alike. It is accompanied
here by the stories with which it has been published since 1902: the
autobiographical Youth, and the tale of an old man's fall from fortune, The
End of the Tether.
Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a
series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan
Collector's Library are books to love and treasure. This elegant edition
features an afterword by Dr Keith Carabine, specialist in American literature
and former chair of the Joseph Conrad society.One night on the Thames, Charles
Marlowe tells his fellow sailors the vivid and brutal tale of his time as a
riverboat captain in the Belgian Congo. From the mists of London we are
whisked to the darkness of Africa's colonial heart - and into the thrall of
the tyrannical Kurtz, an ivory trader who has established himself as a
terrifying demi-god.Sinister and incisive, Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
has retained the fascination of readers and scholars alike. It is accompanied
here by the stories with which it has been published since 1902: the
autobiographical Youth, and the tale of an old man's fall from fortune, The
End of the Tether.
