Joseph Conrad
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Heart of Darkness is a novella written in 1899 by Anglo-Polish novelist Joseph Conrad. It is about a voyage into the Congo Free State in the heart of Africa, by the story's narrator Marlow, an introspective sailor who takes a job as a riverboat captain with the Company, a Belgian concern organized to trade in the Congo.
Marlow, aboard a boat anchored on the River Thames in London, recounts to his friends the story of his assignment to journey up...
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
xlviii, 136 p. : ill., map ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Marlow, a seaman and wanderer, recounts his physical and psychological journey in search of the infamous ivory trader Kurtz. Traveling up river to the heart of the African continent, he gradually becomes obsessed by this enigmatic, wraith-like figure. Marlow's discovery of how Kurtz has gained his position of power over the local people involves him in a radical questioning, not only of his own nature and values, but those of Western civilization....
5) Selected works of Joseph Conrad: six major stories, three complete novels, autobiographical writings
Author
Publisher
Barnes & Noble Books
Pub. Date
1994
Physical Desc
xii, 914 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Modern Library
Pub. Date
1999.
Edition
Modern Library paperback edition.
Physical Desc
lii, 109 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
With an Introduction by Caryl Phillips Commentary by H.L. Mencken, E.M. Forster, Virginia Woolf, Ernest Hemingway, Bertrand Russell, Lionel Trilling, Chiua Achebe, and Philip Gourevitch "Heart of Darkness," which appeared at the very beginning of our century, was a Cassandra cry announcing the end of Victorian Europe, on the verge of transforming itself into the Europe of violence," wrote the critic Czeslaw Milosz. Originally published in 1902, Heart...
Author
Series
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Co
Pub. Date
c2006
Edition
4th ed.
Physical Desc
xix, 514 p. : ill., 1 map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Fourth Edition is again based on Robert Kimbrough's meticulously re-edited text. Missing words have been restored and the entire novel has been re-punctuated in accordance with Conrad's style. The result is the first published version of Heart of Darkness that allows readers to hear Marlow's voice as Conrad heard it when he wrote the story. "Backgrounds and Contexts" provides readers with a generous collection of maps and photographs that bring...
10) A Conrad argosy
Author
Publisher
Doubleday, Doran
Pub. Date
1942
Physical Desc
713 p. : ill.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Bedford Books
Pub. Date
c1997
Physical Desc
x, 268 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"This edition of Conrad's classic 1912 short story reprints the authoritative text of the 1924 Doubleday Edition together with five critical essays - all newly commissioned - that read "The Secret Sharer" from five contemporary critical perspectives: Psychoanalytic Criticism by Daniel R. Schwarz, Reader-Response Criticism by James Phelan, New Historicist Criticism by Michael Levenson, Feminist and Gender Criticism by Bonnie Kime Scott, and Deconstruction...
13) Apocalypse now
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
1999
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 153 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A United States Army officer/trained assassin is sent into the depths of a southeast Asian jungle to seek out a renegade colonel and terminate his command during the Vietnam War.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxiii, 126 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Acclaimed cartoonist Peter Kuper delivers a powerful interpretation of this controversial classic. Heart of Darkness has unsettled generations of readers with its haunting portrait of colonialism and brutal exploitation in Africa. Now award-winning illustrator Peter Kuper reimagines Conrad's masterpiece for a new generation, transforming this dramatic tale of madness, greed, and evil into something visually immersive and profoundly complex. Drawn...
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
Widescreen letterbox ed.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (202 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A United States Army officer/trained assassin is sent into the depths of a southeast Asian jungle to seek out a renegade colonel and terminate his command during the Vietnam War.
16) Gabrielle
Publisher
Wellspring
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Jean is a successful publisher. He has refined tastes and abundant material possessions, among which he seems to include his wife, Gabrielle. But in a single afternoon, Gabrielle decides to leave him for another man and then abruptly reverses her decision. Now, everything that Jean believed to be true about his life and marriage falls apart.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
1998.
Edition
Widescreen and Full Screen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 114 min.) : sound, color, stereo. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The film tells Joseph Conrad's story of Russian emigres and the only survivor from ship crash Yanko Goorall and servant Amy Foster in the end of 19th century. When Yanko enters a farm sick and hungry after the shipwreck, everyone is afraid of him, except for Amy, who is very kind and helps him. Soon he becomes like a son for Dr. James Kennedy and romance between Yanko and Amy follows.
18) Sabotage
Series
Alfred Hitchcock collection volume 1
Publisher
Madacy Entertainment Group
Pub. Date
1998
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 76 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A movie theatre cashier suspects her mild-mannered husband is a traitor who is terrorizing London.
Publisher
Lions Gate Films
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (202 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A United States Army officer/trained assassin is sent into the depths of a southeast Asian jungle to seek out a renegade colonel and terminate his command during the Vietnam War.