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title	:	Heart of Darkness Broadview Literary Texts
author	:	Conrad, Joseph.; Goonetilleke, D.C.R.A.
publisher	:	Broadview Press
isbn10 | asin	:	1551113074
print isbn13	:	9781551113074
ebook isbn13	:	9780585229348
language	:	English
subject	English fiction.
publication date	:	1999
lcc	:	PR6005.O4 1999
ddc	:	823.912
subject	:	English fiction.

Page 3 Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad edited by D. C. R. A. Goonetilleke second edition

Page 4 1999 D. C. R. A. Goonetilleke All rights reserved. The use of any part of this publication reproduced, transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, or stored in a retrieval system, without prior written consent of the publisheror in the case of photocopying, a licence from CANCOPY (Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency) One Yonge Street, Suite 201, Toronto to, ON M5E 1E5is an infringement of the copyright law. Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924 Heart of darkness (Broadview literary texts) 2nd ed. Includes bibliographical references ISBN 1-55111-307-4 I. Goonetilleke, D. C. R. A. II. Title. III. Series. PR6005.04H42 1999 823'.912 c99-931796-2 Broadview Press Ltd., is an independent, international publishing house, incorporated in 1985. North America: P.O. Box 1243, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada K9J 7H5 3576 California Road, Orchard Park, NY 14127 TEL: (705) 743-8990; FAX: (705) 743-8353; E-MAIL: 75322.44@compuserve.com United Kingdom: Turpin Distribution Services Ltd., Blackhorse Rd., Letchworth, Hertfordshire SG6 IHN TEL: (1462) 672555; FAX (1462) 480947; E-MAIL: turpin@rsc.org Australia: St. Clair Press, P.O. Box 287, Rozelle, NSW 2039 TEL: (02) 818-1942; FAX: (02) 418-1923 www.broadviewpress.com Broadview Press gratefully acknowledges the financial support of the Book Publishing Industry Development Program, Ministry of Canadian Heritage, Government of Canada. PRINTED IN CANADA Canad

Page 5 Contents Preface 7 Introduction 9 A Note on the Text 48 Select Bibliography 50 A Joseph Conrad Chronology 51 A Congo Chronology 53 Author's Note (Preface to the 1923 edition of Youth: A Narrative and Two Other Stories) 56 Heart Of Darkness 59 Appendix A: Comments by Conrad 149 Appendix B: Contemporary Reviews 163 Appendix C: Historical Documents 174 Appendix D: Major Textual Changes 239 Appendix E: Illusrations 245 Appendix F: The Photographs of Alice Harris 250 Appendix G: Map of the Congo 258

Page 7 Preface It was a great pleasure to have been invited to edit Conrad's Heart of Darkness. It is to me the most absorbing of Conrad's worksand I am clearly not alone in that judgement. Professor David Leon Higdon, the editor of Conradiana, stated in 1990 that twenty-five percent of the submissions for his journal focus on this novella. It has captivated the general reader, too; it is perhaps the twentieth-century literature classic most commonly readand enjoyed. Chinua Achebe is probably right that it is "the most commonly prescribed novel in twentieth-century literature classes" and, in my experience, students are fascinated by it. To cap it all, the tale was a favourite of Conrad; he called it "my pet Heart of Darkness," in his letter of 3 December 1902 to Elsie Hueffer. It seems to me that it expresses the essence of Conrad. I wish to thank Dr. Marcus Milton, Deputy Director of the British Council, Colombo, Sri Lanka, and the University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, for grants which enabled me to research this edition in The British Library, London, and the Library of the Joseph Conrad Society (U.K.); Professor David Leon Higdon for advice regarding the choice of text; and my wife, Chinchi, whose cooperation is indispensable in all my academic endeavoursand it is always readily given. D.C.R.A.G.

Page 9 Introduction What most differentiates this edition of Heart of Darkness from the many others available is the extent to which it is devoted to placing the text in context. To this end the reader will find a chronology of Conrad's life, a chronology of the Congo, a select bibliography, andperhaps most importantlya very substantial selection of contemporary documents, including comments by Conrad on the text, contemporary reviews, and a variety of historical documents that may help to give a sense of the time out of which

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