Heart of Darkness

ISBN-13: 9781554815531 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 344 str.

Joseph Conrad; D. C. R. a. Goonetilleke

Spis treści

• Acknowledgements
• Preface to the Third Broadview Edition
• Preface to the First Broadview Edition
• Introduction
• Joseph Conrad: A Brief Chronology
• A Congo Chronology
• A Note on the Text
• Heart of Darkness
• 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, Six Years 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
  • Select Bibliography