Resources for the Study of
Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness
Electronic Text Editions of the Novel
- Entire text of Conrad's Heart of Darkness. One large file.
- Conrad's Heart of Darkness by chapter.
- HTML edition of the Heart of Darkness from the InterGo Free Library.
- Key word search of the Heart of Darkness.
- Colonel Walter E. Kurtz: "I watched a snail crawl along the edge of a straight razor. That's my dream. That's my nightmare. Crawling, swiftly, along the edge of a straight... razor... and surviving."
- Captain Benjamin L. Willard: "I was going to the worst place in the world and I didn't even know it yet. Weeks away and hundreds of miles up a river that snaked through the war like a main circuit cable - plugged straight into Kurtz. It was no accident that I got to be the caretaker of Colonel Walter E. Kurtz's memory - anymore than being back in Saigon was an accident. There is no way to tell his story without telling my own. And if his story really is a confession, then so is mine."
Martin Irvine (irvinemj@gusun.georgetown.edu)
Revised, 7/21/96