Heart of Darkness and Selected Short Fiction

When Charles Marlow travels to Africa to serve as steamboat pilot for an ivory-trading company, he learns he is to rendezvous with Kurtz, a trading-post agent held in high regard. But the deeper Marlow penetrates into the jungle, the grimmer the assessments of Kurtz become. Described by Conrad himself as -something quite on another plane than an anecdote of a man who went mad in the Centre of Africa,- Heart of Darkness has long been regarded as a powerful appraisal of the fragility of civilization and the consequences of imperialism. This collection includes another five of Conrad-s incomparable tales of adventure, including -The Secret Sharer,- -Youth,- and -Typhoon.-