Heart of darkness: an authoritative text, backgrounds and sources, essays in criticism

The text of 'Heart of darkness'

Backgrounds and sources. The Congo ; Conrad in the Congo ; Writing the story ; Conrad on life and art

Essays in criticism. The feast by Joseph Conrad / Max Beerbohm ; Joseph Conrad / H.L. Mencken ; 'Heart of darkness' : problem for critics / Robert F. Haugh ; The journey within / Albert J. Guerard ; Freud, Conrad, and the future of an illusion / Alan M. Hollingsworth ; Marlow's quest / Jerome Thale ; Marlow's descent into hell / Lillian Feder ; Conrad's underworld / Robert O. Evans ; An Arthurian allusion / Guy Owens Jr. ; Allusions and overtones / Albert J. Guerard ; The lotus posture and 'Heart of darkness' / William Bysshe Stein ; The frame / Seymore Gross ; No easy clue / Robert O. Evans ; The turn of the tide in 'Heart of darkness' / George Williams ; The originality of Conrad / Marvin Mudrick ; Conrad's "complicated presentations" of symbolic imagery / Stewart C. Wilcox ; Conrad's ecological art / Leo Gurko ; Conrad's skein of ironies / Paul L. Wiley.