Reader s Guides Conrad s Heart of Darkness: A Reader s Guide (Hardcover)

Reader s Guides provide a comprehensive starting point for any advanced student giving an overview of the context criticism and influence of key works. Each guide also offers students fresh critical insights and provides a practical introduction to close reading and to analysing literary language and form. They provide up-to-date authoritative but accessible guides to the most commonly studied classic texts. Joseph Conrad s novella Heart of Darkness (1902) is a key text in the development of modernism and one of the most important literary works of the early twentieth century. This guide provides an invaluable introduction to reading Conrad s Heart of Darkness and includes sections on its contexts language and style critical reception and literary and film adaptations including Coppola s Apocalypse Now and finally an annotated guide to further reading.