Heart of Darkness and The Secret SharerRandom House Publishing Group, 2 mrt 2004 - 208 pagina's Heart Of Darkness. The story of the civilized, enlightened Mr. Kurtz who embarks on a harrowing "night journey" into the savage heart of Africa, only to find his dark and evil soul. The Secret Sharer. The saga of a young, inexperienced skipper forced to decide the fate of a fugitive sailor who killed a man in self-defense. As he faces his first moral test the skipper discovers a terrifying truth -- and comes face to face with the secret itself. Heart Of Darkness and The Secret Sharer draw on actual events and people that Conrad met or heard about during his many far-flung travels. In portraying men whose incredible journeys on land and at sea are also symbolic voyages into their own mysterious depths, these two masterful works give credence to Conrad's acclaim as a major psychological writer. |
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Pagina vii
... his writing . At one time he stated : " My task which I am trying to achieve is , by the power of the written word to make you hear , to make you feel it is , before all , to make you see . " But Introduction by Franklin Walker.
... his writing . At one time he stated : " My task which I am trying to achieve is , by the power of the written word to make you hear , to make you feel it is , before all , to make you see . " But Introduction by Franklin Walker.
Pagina ix
... feels that the work has little psychological or moral content . One " symbolist " critic finds the sleeping suits worn by both characters represent " the garb of uncon- scious life " ( in spite of our knowledge that Conrad fre- quently ...
... feels that the work has little psychological or moral content . One " symbolist " critic finds the sleeping suits worn by both characters represent " the garb of uncon- scious life " ( in spite of our knowledge that Conrad fre- quently ...
Pagina xi
... feel with F. R. Leavis that the " de- tails and circumstances of the voyage to and up the Congo are present to us as if we were making the journey our- selves . " By his mastery of tone as well , Conrad gave his " somber theme " a ...
... feel with F. R. Leavis that the " de- tails and circumstances of the voyage to and up the Congo are present to us as if we were making the journey our- selves . " By his mastery of tone as well , Conrad gave his " somber theme " a ...
Pagina 7
... perhaps too much dice , you know - com- ing out here in the train of some prefect , or tax - gatherer , or trader even , to mend his fortunes . Land in a swamp , march through the woods , and in some inland post feel HEART OF DARKNESS 7.
... perhaps too much dice , you know - com- ing out here in the train of some prefect , or tax - gatherer , or trader even , to mend his fortunes . Land in a swamp , march through the woods , and in some inland post feel HEART OF DARKNESS 7.
Pagina 8
... feel exactly like this . What saves us is ef- ficiency the devotion to efficiency . But these chaps were not much account , really . They were no colonists ; their ad- ministration was merely a squeeze , and nothing more , I suspect ...
... feel exactly like this . What saves us is ef- ficiency the devotion to efficiency . But these chaps were not much account , really . They were no colonists ; their ad- ministration was merely a squeeze , and nothing more , I suspect ...
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Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
Almayer's Folly amongst appeared asked bank began breath bush cabin captain chap Charles Dickens chief mate closed coast cried D. H. Lawrence deck door earth eyes face feet fellow felt Ford Madox Ford forest Fyodor Dostoevsky glance gone hands head hear heard Heart of Darkness helmsman Hermann Hesse immense ivory Jane Austen Joseph Conrad knew Kurtz ladder land Leggatt light lived looked Lord Jim manager Marlow murmured mysterious never niggers night Novel once perhaps pilgrims poop river rivets round sails savage second mate Secret Sharer seemed Sephora shadow ship ship's shore shouted side silence sleeping suit sort soul stared station steamboat steamer steward stood story stream suddenly talk tell thing Thomas Hardy thought told tone took turned voice wanted watch whispered wilderness word young
Populaire passages
Pagina 107 - True, he had made that last stride, he had stepped over the edge, while I had been permitted to draw back my hesitating foot. And perhaps in this is the whole difference; perhaps all the wisdom, and all truth, and all sincerity, are just compressed into that inappreciable moment of time in which we step over the threshold of the invisible.
Pagina vii - My task which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word to make you hear, to make you feel — it is, before all, to make you see.
Pagina 154 - I'll be on deck directly." I was going out to make the acquaintance of my ship. Before I left the cabin our eyes met — the eyes of the only two strangers on board. I pointed to the recessed part where the little camp-stool awaited him and laid my finger on my lips. He made a gesture — somewhat vague — a little mysterious, accompanied by a faint smile, as if of regret. This is not the place to enlarge upon the sensations of a man who feels for the first time a ship move under his feet to his...
Pagina 53 - Yes, it was ugly enough; but if you were man enough you would admit to yourself that there was in you just the faintest trace of a response to the terrible frankness of that noise, a dim suspicion of there being a meaning in it which you— you so remote from the night of first ages— could comprehend.
Pagina 163 - Bless my soul!" he exclaimed again under his breath. All that afternoon he wore a dreamy, contemplative appearance which in him was a mark of perplexity. After dinner I went into my stateroom as if I meant to take some rest. There we two bent our dark heads over a half-unrolled chart lying on my bed. "There,
Pagina 20 - ... dart and vanish, a little white smoke would disappear, a tiny projectile would give a feeble screech — and nothing happened. Nothing could happen. There was a touch of insanity in the proceeding, a sense of lugubrious drollery in the sight; and it was not dissipated by somebody on board assuring me earnestly there was a camp of natives — he called them enemies! — hidden out of sight somewhere.
Pagina 49 - Going up that river was like travelling back to the earliest beginnings of the world, when vegetation rioted on the earth and the big trees were kings. An empty stream, a great silence, an impenetrable forest.
Pagina 11 - My dear fellow," and did nothing. Then - would you believe it? - I tried the women. I, Charlie Marlow, set the women to work - to get a job. Heavens! Well, you see, the notion drove me. I had an aunt, a dear enthusiastic soul. She wrote: "It will be delightful. I am ready to do anything, anything for you. It is a glorious idea. I know the wife of a very high personage in the Administration, and also a man who has lots of influence with,