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The Costa Concordia, The Titanic, and Cowardice at Sea

Wall Street Journal (blog) - Jan 23, 2012
Sea stories are as fueled by jumps as romances are by misunderstandings: “I had jumped… it seems,” says Jim, chief mate on the Patna, the stricken ship in Joseph Conrad's Lord Jim. There are seven lifeboats for the four-hundred on board: the Patna's ...

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Manila Bulletin - Jan 26, 2012
Joseph Conrad MANILA, Philippines — To all parties involved, whether they be lawyers, congressmen, senators, or administration officials, the impeachment trial of Chief Justice Renato Corona boils down to the biblical admonition of he who has no sin, ...

An Africa That Talks Back

Tehelka - Jan 27, 2012
Would you say Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness continues to shape the perception of Africa to the outside world? Chinua Achebe pointed out the untold damage that the book did to the perception of Africa and also hinted that Conrad was a racist.

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King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa

by: Adam Hochschild
In the 1880s, as the European powers were carving up Africa, King Leopold II of Belgium seized for himself the vast and mostly unexplored territory surrounding the Congo River. Carrying out a genocidal plundering of the Congo, he looted its rubber, brutalized its people, and ultimately slashed its population by ten million--all the while shrewdly cultivating his reputation as a great humanitarian. Heroic efforts to expose these crimes eventually led to the first great human rights movement of the twentieth century, in which everyone from Mark Twain to the Archbishop of Canterbury participated.
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Heart of Darkness

by: Joseph Conrad
Heart of Darkness is a novella written by Joseph Conrad. It is widely regarded as a significant work of English literature and part of the Western canon. The story tells of Charles Marlow, an Englishman who took a foreign assignment from a Belgian trading company as a ferry-boat captain in Africa. Heart of Darkness exposes the myth behind colonization while exploring the three levels of darkness that the protagonist, Marlow, encounters--the darkness of the Congo wilderness, the darkness of the European's cruel treatment of the natives, and the unfathomable darkness within every human being for committing heinous acts of evil.
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The Works of Joseph Conrad

by: Joseph Conrad
Kindle collection of the works of Joseph Conrad.

Works include:

Non-Fiction:
The Mirror of the Sea
Notes on Life and Letters
A Personal Record

Novels:
Almayer's Folly
The Arrow of Gold
Chance
End of the Tether
Gaspar Ruiz
Heart of Darkness
The Inheritors
Lord Jim
The Nigger Of The "Narcissus"
Nostromo
An Outcast of the Islands
The Point Of Honor
The Rescue
Romance
The Secret Agent.
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Heart of Darkness and The Congo Diary

by: Joseph Conrad
Penguin inaugurates a series of revised editions of Conrad's finest works, with new introductions

Exploring the workings of consciousness as well as the grim realities of imperialism, Heart of Darkness tells of Marlow, a seaman and wanderer, who journeys into the heart of the African continent to discover how the enigmatic Kurtz has gained power over the local people.
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