

Decorative, durable, and collectible, these books offer hours of pleasure to readers young and old and are an indispensable cornerstone for any home library. Each volume features authoritative texts by the world's greatest authors in exquisitely designed foil-stamped binding, with distinctive colored edging and a silk-ribbon bookmark. Heart of Darkness and Other Stories is one of Barnes & Noble's Collectible Editions classics. Heart of Darkness and Selected Short Fiction (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (B&N Classics) Books. This collection of Conrad's best fiction includes an additional five tales of the land and sea and the intrepid men who adventure upon them. Conrad's tale of the darkness that festers in the heart of the civilized is one of the most enduring works of twentieth-century literature and a touchstone for many later works of fiction inspired by its somber theme.

Kurtz in Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness," the story of a man who travels into the jungle to seek his fortune and who instead finds an all-consuming moral and spiritual wilderness.
