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." ...
Always knew it was supposed to be great. I wasn't disappointed.
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
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...