A collection of backgrounds and criticisms that will help the reader to call upon his or her own creative resources in understanding Conrad's story and its setting in the Belgian Congo. Included are documents of Conrad's actual journey to Africa and his trip up the Congo, with parallel descriptions of the region bby such experience observers as H. M. Stanley and Sir Roger Casement. Includes the entire text of Heart of Darkness.

(Key Words: Literary Criticism, Study Guides, Study Aids, Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness, Belgian Congo, Congo, Henry M. Stanley, Morton D. Zabel, Roger Casement, Leonard F. Dean, Cannibalism).