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Lord Jim tells the story of a young, idealistic Englishman who is disgraced by a single act of cowardice while serving as an officer on the Patna, a merchant-ship sailing from an eastern port. His life is blighted; an isolated scandal assumes horrifying proportions. An older man,...

"Acclaimed cartoonist Peter Kuper delivers a powerful interpretation of this controversial classic. Heart of Darkness has unsettled generations of readers with its haunting portrait of colonialism and brutal exploitation in Africa. Now award-winning illustrator Peter Kuper reimag...

"This new edition of Heart of Darkness is based on an emended version of the 1902 Blackwood edition. The introduction and appendices emphasize the historical events surrounding Joseph Conrad's time in the Belgian Congo with materials closely tied to that time period, presenting a...

A comprehensive collection of critical commentaries on Joseph Conrad's classic novel "Heart of Darkness," including those from contemporaries Henry James and Virginia Woolf; along with the complete text of the novel.

"Seaman Charlie Marlow takes a decaying steamboat on a perilous voyage to the heart of Africa. His mission is to relieve an ivory agent named Kurtz, taken sick at his remote trading station on the Congo River. The cruelty that Marlowe witnesses on his journey, and his eventual me...

The Duel: When Lieutenant D'Hubert is sent to arrest Lieutenant Feraud for wounding a civilian in a duel, Feraud truculently insists on fighting the other officer - sparking a deadly feud between the two Hussars which will erupt in recurrent duels across many miles and many years...

"When Charles Marlow travels to Africa to serve as steamboat pilot for an ivory-trading company, he learns he is to rendezvous with Kurtz, a trading-post agent held in high regard. But the deeper Marlow penetrates into the jungle, the grimmer the assessments of Kurtz become. Desc...

A United States Army officer/trained assassin is sent into the depths of a southeast Asian jungle to seek out a renegade colonel and terminate his command during the Vietnam War.

This duel feature includes Apocalypse Now (1979) and Apocalypse Now Redux (2001), plus over 2 hours of new bonus materials, including commentaries, rare, unseen footage and more!

Heart of Darkness is the thrilling tale of Marlow, a seaman and wanderer recounting his physical and psychological journey in search of the infamous ivory trader Kurtz. Traveling upriver into the heart of the African continent, he gradually becomes obsessed by this enigmatic, wra...

Epic in scope and detail, populated by a vivid cast of characters covering the entire social spectrum, Nostromo is one of the greatest political novels ever written. It chronicles an era of political crisis in an imaginary but archetypal South American state, where the people of ...

Steamboat captain Charles Marlow shares stories with his crew about how he came to work for an ivory trading company. Mostly focusing on his encounters with the mysterious Mr. Kurtz, Marlow tells intriguing stories involving hostile natives, secrets from his employer, and the dan...

When successful businessman Alvan Hervey begins his daily journey back from the city, he has no idea what awaits him at home--for there, on his bedroom table, is a letter from his wife, confessing her ultimate betrayal: she has left him for another man. But no sooner has this awf...

Lord Jim tells the story of a young, idealistic Englishman--'as unflinching as a hero in a book'--who is disgraced by an act of cowardice while serving as an officer on the Patna, a merchant-ship sailing from 'an Eastern port' with a party of Muslim pilgrims. His life is blighted...