Wadsworth guides to literary study

IN THE year 1799, Captain Amasa Delano, of Duxbury, in Massachusetts, commanding a large sealer and general trader, lay at anchor, with a valuable cargo, in the harbour of St. Maria- a small, desert, uninhabited island towards the southern extremity of the long coast of Chili. There he had touched for water...Please Note: This book is easy to read in true text, not scanned images that can sometimes be difficult to decipher. The Microsoft eBook has a contents page linked to the chapter headings for easy navigation. The Adobe eBook has bookmarks at chapter headings and is printable up to two full copies per year. Both versions are text searchable.

The Congo diary / Joseph Conrad -- In the heart of darkness / G. Jean-Aubry -- On Conrad's use of memory / Edward Garnett -- Reassessment of "Heart of darkness" / Douglas Hewitt -- The journey within / Albert J. Guerard -- Marlow's function / M.C. Bradbrook -- Apology for Marlow / W.Y. Tindall -- Marlow and Conrad / Marvin Mudrick -- Conrad's underworld / Robert O. Evans -- The lotus posture and "The heart of darkness" / William Bysshe Stein -- A further note on the function of the frame in "Heart of darkness" / Seymour L. Gross -- Ingress to the heart of darkness / Walter F. Wright -- The lie and truth / Thomas C. Moser -- The light and dark lie / Wilfred S. Dowden.