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TWO TALES OF THE CONGO, by Joseph ys the Folio Society. price, ONRAD was a master of the long short story, and one of his best, next to Typhoon or Youth, was Heart of Darkness, a fatalistic tale of the Belgian (continued on next page)
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(continued from previous page) Congo at the end of last century. The story is a masterpiece of irony. Nowhere is "he more grim, more savage, or more cruelly deceptive than in his gradual unfolding of the character of the mysterious trader Mister Kurtz. And in his evocation of the malignant jungle atmospere, his analysis of the disintegration of the human spirit there, he creates a picture at once callous, terrifying and macabre.-This, and an earlier Congo tale, An Outpost of Progress, has been illustrated by several incisive copper engravings by Dolf Rieser. The book, which is set in 13 point Poliphilus type and handsomely bound, is
a valuable collector’s item
P.J.
W.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 735, 14 August 1953, Page 13
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160COLLECTORS' CONRAD New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 735, 14 August 1953, Page 13
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