Heart of Darkness (1899): Library Resources

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Full text of Conrad's Heart of Darkness is available on the Web at:

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Search the Library Catalog for the following reference titles that contain material about Heart of Darkness. These titles may be available in other college or public libraries.

• Critical Survey of Long Fiction [vol 2]
• Cyclopedia of Literary Characters [vol 2]
• Cyclopedia of Literary Places [vol 2]
• Cyclopedia of World Authors [vol 1]
• Edwardian and Georgian Fiction
  
• A Joseph Conrad Companion
• Literature and Its Times [vol 2]
  
• Masterplots [vol 5]
• Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism (NCLC) - Contains passages from literary criticism originally published in books and journals
  • [vol 56] - locate the topical essay "Colonialism in Victorian Literature"
  • [vol 148] - locate the topical essay "Representations of Africa in Nineteenth-Century Literature"
    
• Novels for Students [vol 2]
• The Oxford Reader's Companion to Conrad
• Short Stories for Students [vol 12]
• Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism (TCLC) - Contains passages from literary criticism originally published in books and journals
  • [vols 1, 6, 13, 25, 43, 57] - check under Heart of Darkness in the Cumulative Title Index, a separate paperback index that accompanies this multi-volume work
  • [vol 138] - locate the topical essay "Racism in Literature"
  • [vol 202] - locate the topical essay "Adventure Literature"
    

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• Conrad, Joseph
  

You'll find library materials that provide biographical information about Joseph Conrad, as well criticism and interpretation of his work.

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