Heart of Darkness: Secondary Student Edition

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CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, Aug 27, 2011 - Fiction - 116 pages
HEART OF DARKNESS: SECONDARY EDUCATION EDITION now includes expanded study materials and quizzes. Each quiz contains the following sections: Reading Review, Vocabulary, Literary Terms, Critical Thinking.In 1889, Joseph Conrad journeyed to Colonial Africa to assume command of a Congo River steamboat. There he discovered the dark nature of European exploitation of the peoples and natural resources of a continent, as well as the darkness and dangers of nature itself. HEART OF DARKNESS is a dramatization of Conrad's experiences and discoveries. Narrated in the vocabulary of Conrad's storyteller Marlow, the author expresses the horrors of a system he has grown to despise. Just as forcefully, he reveals the darkness that participation in such a system can visit upon the human soul.This edition is designed for secondary classrooms. While the text is unabridged, the author's lengthy paragraphs (confusing for some younger readers) are broken into appropriate but more readable lengths. Instructional emphasis for this volume is "vocabulary in context." Heart of Darkness is a novel that is easy to read but rich in language. Conrad divided his novel into three sections. Within each section of this edition, specific vocabulary words are identified and defined. A review of the vocabulary words, along with their usage in the text follows the end of the section.

About the author (2011)

Joseph Conrad is recognized as one of the 20th century's greatest English language novelists. He was born Jozef Konrad Nalecz Korzeniowski on December 3, 1857, in the Polish Ukraine. His father, a writer and translator, was from Polish nobility, but political activity against Russian oppression led to his exile. Conrad was orphaned at a young age and subsequently raised by his uncle. At 17 he went to sea, an experience that shaped the bleak view of human nature which he expressed in his fiction. In such works as Lord Jim (1900), Youth (1902), and Nostromo (1904), Conrad depicts individuals thrust by circumstances beyond their control into moral and emotional dilemmas. His novel Heart of Darkness (1902), perhaps his best known and most influential work, narrates a literal journey to the center of the African jungle. This novel inspired the acclaimed motion picture Apocalypse Now. After the publication of his first novel, Almayer's Folly (1895), Conrad gave up the sea. He produced thirteen novels, two volumes of memoirs, and twenty-eight short stories. He died on August 3, 1924, in England.

Bibliographic information

TitleHeart of Darkness: Secondary Student Edition
AuthorJoseph Conrad
EditorC. Naney
PublisherCreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2011
ISBN1466222271, 9781466222274
Length116 pages
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