Originally published in 1902, Heart of Darkness remains an enduring meditation on colonialism. This edition contains selections from Conrad’s diaries of 1890, when he made a journey in the Belgian Congo that inspired the novel. It also includes illuminating commentary by authors and critics who delineate the significance of Conrad’s work, including H.L. Mencken, E.M. Forster, Ernest Hemingway, Bertrand Russell, Lionel Trilling, Chinua Achebe, Philip Gourevitch, and Virginia Woolf.
