Heart of Darkness is one of Joseph Conrad’s rare and genuine masterpieces; an engrossing work of artistry deserving of the label in a thousand different ways.  It can be found on countless lists of the finest literary works of all time, and is one of his major achievements. As a central device, the parallel journey into both the heart of Africa—and the dark center of the human psyche, remain as transcendent as ever in this beautifully realized 21st century digital edition.

JOSEPH CONRAD (1857-1924) wrote stories and novels, often with nautical settings that depict trials of the human spirit in the midst of an uncaring universe. He was a master prose stylist who brought a distinctly tragic sensibility to his modernist literature. He is known to have influenced D.H. Lawrence, William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway T.S. Eliot and Philip Roth.