Heart of darkness

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From the Book

Introduction / by Adam Hochschild

Heart of darkness

Filmography

Telling Africa's story today : recent films about Africa

Contemporary reviews of Heart of darkness

Further reading

Character sketches

Notes.

From the Book - Third edition.

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Appendix A Contemporary Reviews --

1. From Edward Garnett, "Mr. Conrad's New Book," Academy and Literature (6 December 1902) --

2. Hugh Clifford, "The Art of Mr. Joseph Conrad," Spectator (29 November 1902) --

3. From "Mr. Conrad's New Book" (unsigned), Manchester Guardian (10 December 1902) --

4. From "Youth" (unsigned), Times Literary Supplement (12 December 1902) --

5. From Athenaeum (unsigned) (20 December 1902) --

6. From "Some Stories by Joseph Conrad" (unsigned), New York Times Saturday Review of Books and Art (4 April 1903) --

7. From The Monthly Review (unsigned) (7 April 1903) --

8. Virginia Woolf, "Mr. Conrad's `Youth,'" Times Literary Supplement (20 September 1917) --

Appendix B Diaries, Letters, Other Writings, and Comments by Conrad --

1. From Conrad's Congo Diary (1890) --

2. Letter to Marguerite Poradowska (26 September 1890) --

3. From Letter to William Blackwood (31 December 1898) --

4. From Edward Garnett, "Introduction" to Letters from Conrad (1928) --

5. From Letter to R.B. Cunninghame Graham (31 January 1898) --

6. From Letter to R.B. Cunninghame Graham (8 February 1899) --

7. From Letter to William Blackwood (31 May 1902) --

8. From Letter to Elsie Hueffer (3 December 1902) --

9. From Letter to Edward Garnett (22 December 1902) --

10. From "Geography and Some Explorers," National Geographic (March 1924) --

11. From Letter to Roger Casement (21 December 1903) --

12. "Author's Note" to Almayer's Folly (1895) --

Appendix C The Congo: African, American, and European Viewpoints --

1. From Disasi Makulo, The Life of Disasi Makulo (c. 1940) --

2. From William G. Stairs, Victorian Explorer: The African Diaries of William G. Stairs (1887) --

3. From George Washington Williams, An Open Letter to His Serene Majesty Leopold II (1890) --

4. From E.J. Glave, In Savage Africa: Or, SixYears Adventure in Congo-Land (1893) --

5. From Guy Burrows, The Land of the Pigmies (1898) --

6. From "An Englishman's Account of Congo State Methods," The Times (26 May 1899) --

7. From Roger Casement, "The Casement Report" (1904) --

8. From E.D. Morel, Great Britain and the Congo (1909) --

9. From Mark Twain, King Leopold's Soliloquy: A Defense of His Congo Rule (1905) --

Appendix D Henry Morton Stanley --

1. From Henry Morton Stanley, Through the Dark Continent (1878) --

2. From Henry Morton Stanley, "Preface," Through the Dark Continent (1899) --

3. From Henry Morton Stanley, Incidents of the Journey through the Dark Continent (1886) --

4. From speech at a dinner given in his honour by the Lotos Club in New York (27 November 1886) --

5. From speech on being given the Freedom of the City of Swansea (4 October 1892) --

6. Advertising Announcement (1899) --

Appendix E British Perspectives on Race and Imperialism --

1. From Thomas Carlyle, "Occasional Discourse on the Negro Question," Fraser's Magazine (December 1849) --

2. From John Stuart Mill, "The Negro Question," Fraser's Magazine (January 1850) --

3. From W.M. Thackeray to Anne Carmichael-Smyth (26 January 1853) --

4. From John Ruskin, "Lecture 1: Inaugural" (1870) --

5. From George Gissing to Algernon Gissing (23 January 1885) --

6. From Joseph Chamberlain, Speech, the Imperial Institute (11 November 1895) --

7. From Joseph Chamberlain, Speech, the Royal Colonial Institute (31 March 1897) --

8. From Mary Kingsley, "Appendix 1: Trade and Labour in West Africa," Travels in West Africa (1897) --

9. From Benjamin Kidd, The Control of the Tropics (1898) --

10. From Cecil Rhodes, Speech at Cape Town (18 July 1898) --

Appendix F Conrad's Reading --

1. From Gabriela Cunninghame Graham, Saint Teresa, Being Some Account of Her Life and Times (1894) --

2. From R.B. Cunninghame Graham, "Bloody Niggers," The Social-Democrat (April 1897) --

3. From Jules Houdret, "The Congo Free State," Letter to the Editor of The Times (10 April 1897) --

4. From H.R. Fox Bourne, "The Congo Free State," Letter to the Editor of The Times (16 April 1897) --

5. From Andrew Seth, "Friedrich Nietzsche: His Life and Works," Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (October 1897) --

6. From E.J. Glave, "Cruelty in the Congo Free State: Concluding Extracts from the Journals of E.J. Glave," Century Magazine (September 1897) --

7. From "Notes," Saturday Review (17 December 1898) --

Appendix G Major Textual Changes --

Appendix H Illustrations --

Appendix I The Photographs of Alexandre Delcommune --

Appendix J The Photographs of Alice Harris --

Appendix K Maps of the Congo.

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Contributors

Another Time...Another Place Producer
Brick, Scott Narrator, narrator
Case, David narrator
Conrad, Joseph Author
Conrad, Joseph Author

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890L

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