More than a century after its publication（1899）,Heart of Darkness remains an indisputably classic text and argualy Conrad's finest work.

This Notron Critical Edition is again based on Robert Kimbrough's meticulously re-edited text of the novel.An expanded Textual Appendix alows the reder to follow Conrad's revisions at different stages of the creative process.A Chronology has been added,and the Selected Bibli-ography has been revised and updated.

Introduction

The Text of Heart of Darkness

Heart of Darkness

Textual Appendix

Backgrounds and Contexts

IMPERIALISM IN THE CONGO

Encyclopedia Britannica·"Congo Free State" (Tenth Edition, 1902)

[European Reaction to Leopold’s Abuses] (Eleventh Edition, 1910)

King Leopold II·[The Sacred Mission of Civilization]

George Washington Williams·"An Open Letter to his Serene Majesty Leopold II"

Roger Casement·The Congo Report

Edmund D. Morel·[Property and Trade versus Forced Production]

Adam Hochschild·"Meeting Mr. Kurtz"

Alan Simmons·[Conrad, Casement, and the Congo Atrocities]

ILLUSTRATIONS

NINETEENH-CENTURY ATTITUDES TOWARD RACE

C.W.F.Hegel·[The African Character]

Charles Darwin·On the Races of Man

Alfred Russel Wallace·[Are Humans One Race or Many？]

Francis Galton·The Comparativve Worth of Different Races

Benjamin Kidd·[Social Progress and the Rivalry of the Races]

Peter Edgerly Firchow·Race,Ethnicity,Nationality,Empire

CONRAD IN THE CONGO

THE AUTHOR ON ART AND LITERATURE

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Criticism

CONTEMPORARY RESPONSES

Edward Garnett·From Academy and Literature

Unsigned Review·From the Manchester Guardian

Unsigned Review·From the Times Literary Supplement

Unsigned Review·From the Athenaeum

John Masefield·From the Speaker

Henry James·The New Novel

E.M. Forster·Joseph Conrad: A Note

Ford Madox Ford·A Personal Remembrance

Virginia Woolf·Joseph Conrad

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Joseph Conrad:A Chronology

Selected Bibliography