Back in the mid-‘70s, I attended a lecture by Gene Roddenberry where he acknowledged some feminists were accusing him of using women as sex objects in Star Trek. He pled guilty, saying he intended to continue using women as sex objects but added, “to be fair, we will continue to use men as sex objec...
Where the Wild Things Are for adults. Kurtz went to the jungle where the natives "roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws" until Kurtz "tamed them with [his] magic trick" and they "made him king of all wild things." ...
AcknowledgementsChronologyIntroduction to 'Heart of Darkness'Introduction to 'The Congo Diary'Further ReadingA Note on the TextsMap of the River Congo--Heart of Darkness--The Congo DiaryAppendix: Author's Note (1917)NotesGlossary of Nautical Terms
AcknowledgementsChronologyIntroduction to 'Heart of Darkness'Introduction to 'The Congo Diary'Further ReadingA Note on the TextsMap of the River Congo--Heart of Darkness--The Congo DiaryAppendix: Author's Note (1917)NotesGlossary of Nautical Terms
Intrigueing book. Told by a narrator who is involved in the periphery of the action. he's an English language teacher, and is the western eyes of the title. he sees it as his duty to pass on what happened and present the Russians at the core of the story in a manner understandable to the western min...
Very powerful. I already want to keep going back and dipping in to odd pages. I shall have to look out for my own copy as this one is going back to the library. The odd thing is how contemporary it all sounds, I'm having trouble placing the book in 1899, and the introduction Joseph Conrad wrote in t...
Read as audiobook. This relatively short novel was stretched to almost 14 hours.At its heart, this is a novel about attempting to overcome one's own haemartia, or tragic flaw. While the Greek audiences of Aristotle's time found the hero sympathetic because of his important error. Setting aside the c...
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