Pub Date: November 5, 2019
Dewey: 741.5973
LCCN: 2019014795
Lexile Code: 0000
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Price on Product
Target Age Group: NA to NA
Physical Info: 0.60" H x 9.20" L x 6.30" W ( 1.15 lbs) 160 pages
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Description: Acclaimed cartoonist Peter Kuper delivers a powerful interpretation of JosephConrad's classic novella. The novella unsettled generations with its hauntingportrait of colonialism in Africa.
Brief description: JOSEPH CONRAD was born in Polish Ukraine on December 3, 1857, with the name Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski. Orphaned at the age of eleven, Conrad spent the remainder of his youth in Switzerland and Cracow before joining the French marines. In 1878, he enlisted in the British Merchant Navy. Following sixteen years of service, Conrad launched his literary career in England. He published many novels and stories, including Lord Jim (1900), Nostromo (1904), and most famously, The Heart of Darkness (1899), inspired by his steamboat voyage on the Congo River. Although English was his third language (after Polish and French), Conrad's rich and distinctive prose established him as one of England's greatest novelists. Conrad died on August 3, 1924, in Kent, England.
Review Quotes: [Kuper] doesn't just retell the book. He destabilizes it, forcing a reconsideration. Most importantly, he does so with vast skill and care.--Etelka Lehoczky "NPR"