Conrad's Heart of Darkness

*Reader's Guides* provide a comprehensive starting point for any advanced student, giving an overview of the context, criticism and influence of key works. Each guide also offers students fresh critical insights and provides a practical introduction to close reading and to analysing literary language and form. They provide up-to-date, authoritative but accessible guides to the most commonly studied classic texts. Joseph Conrad's novella, *Heart of Darkness* (1902), is a key text in the development of modernism and one of the most important literary works of the early twentieth century. This guide provides an invaluable introduction to reading Conrad's *Heart of Darkness* and includes sections on its contexts, language and style, critical reception and literary and film adaptations, including Coppola's *Apocalypse Now,* and finally an annotated guide to further reading.