Heart of Darkness and Selections from The Congo Diary
Jospeh Conrad (1957-1924) grew up amid political unrest in
Russian-occupied Poland. After twenty years at sea with the French
and British merchant navies, he settled in England in 1894. Over
the next three decades he revolutionized the English novel with
works such as Typhoon (1902), Youth (1902), Nostromo (1904), The
Secret Agent (1907), Under Western Eyes (1911), Chance (1913), and
Victory (1915).
Caryl Phillips is the author of many works of fiction and
nonfiction. His novel A Distant Shore won the Commonwealth Writers'
Prize and was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award. His other
awards include the Martin Luther King Memorial Prize, a Guggenheim
Fellowship, and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Phillips is a
Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and lives in New York
City.
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