Heart of Darkness, The Man Who Would Be King, and Other Works on Empire, A Longman Cultural Edition, 1st edition

From Longman's Cultural Editions series, Heart of Darkness, The Man Who Would Be King, and Other Works on Empire shows the literary and historical context within which–and against which–both Conrad and Kipling wrote their masterpieces.

These works have deeply influenced later writings that deal with the ambitions, complexities, and failures of imperial projects of cultural influence and political control. English, American, South Asian, and African authors from Saul Bellow to Salman Rushdie have worked with and against the models pioneered by Conrad and Kipling in the late Victorian era; their revolutionary impact is illuminated in this text. 

Handsomely produced and affordably priced, Longman Cultural Editions consist of the complete text of an important literary work, reliably edited, headed by an inviting introduction, supplemented by helpful annotations, accompanied by a table of significant dates and a guide for further study, then followed by contextual materials that reveal the conversations and controversies of its historical moment.

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• This edition includes the entire texts of Conrad's Heart of Darkness and Kipling's The Man Who Would Be King as well as a generous selection of Kipling's verse.
• Contextual materials include excerpts from Conrad's original diary of his Congo journey, a bizarre speech by Henry Morton Stanley, promoting King Leopold's Congo colony to the weavers of Manchester, important stories on Anglo-Indian empire, vivid first-person accounts of British imperialism in Afghanistan, and a lively collection of popular poetry on empire by Edward Lear, W. S. Gulbert, and others.
• Thorough footnotes identify cultural references, social customs and rituals, and literary allusions, as well as defining unfamiliar word usages.
• Maps, cartoons, and other period illustrations dramatize the settings and the issues taken up by Kipling and Conrad.