The Fourth Edition is again based on Robert Kimbrough's meticulously re-edited text. Missing words have been restored and the entire novel has been repunctuated in accordance with Conrad's style. The result is the first published version of Heart of Darkness that allows readers to hear Marlow's voice as Conrad heard it when he wrote the story. " Backgrounds and Contexts " pr...(展开全部)

The Fourth Edition is again based on Robert Kimbrough's meticulously re-edited text. Missing words have been restored and the entire novel has been repunctuated in accordance with Conrad's style. The result is the first published version of Heart of Darkness that allows readers to hear Marlow's voice as Conrad heard it when he wrote the story. " Backgrounds and Contexts " pr...(展开全部)

约瑟夫•康拉德（1857-1924），英国作家，1857年生于波兰，有二十余年的海上生涯，曾航行世界各地，积累了丰富的海上生活经验。康拉德最擅长写海洋冒险小说，有“海洋小说大师”之称。1886年加入英国籍。一共写了13部长篇小说、28篇短篇小说和2篇回忆录，代表作有《水仙号上的黑水手》《吉姆爷》《诺斯特罗莫》《间谍》《黑暗的心》（后来被改编成电影《现代启示录》）等。

Originally published in 1902, Heart of Darkness remains one of this century's most enduring - and harrowing - works of fiction. Written several years after Conrad's grueling sojourn in the Belgian Congo, the novel tells the story of Marlow, a seaman who undertakes his own journey into the African jungle to find the tormented white trader Kurtz. Rich in irony and spellbinding pr...(展开全部)

约瑟夫•康拉德（1857-1924），英国作家，1857年生于波兰，有二十余年的海上生涯，曾航行世界各地，积累了丰富的海上生活经验。康拉德最擅长写海洋冒险小说，有“海洋小说大师”之称。1886年加入英国籍。一共写了13部长篇小说、28篇短篇小说和2篇回忆录，代表作有《水仙号上的黑水手》《吉姆爷》《诺斯特罗莫》《间谍》《黑暗的心》（后来被改编成电影《现代启示录》）等。

《黑暗的心》被认为是英国文学史上真正意义上的现代主义小说，在这部作品中作者对人类文明以及人性这一主题作了深刻的思考。记录了船长马洛在一艘停靠于伦敦外的海船上所讲的刚果河的故事。马洛的故事除了涉及马洛自己年轻时的非洲经历之外，主要讲述了他在非洲期间所认识的一个叫库尔兹的白人殖民者的故事——一个矢志将“文明进步”带到非洲的理想主义者，后来堕落成贪婪的殖民者的经过。此电子书为全英文版。

厄休拉•勒古恩 ( Ursula K. Le Guin, 1929— 2018) 美国幻想文学大师、文学家，“奇幻小说三巨头”之一，被称为“科幻小说女王”。 厄休拉•勒古恩，一生获奖无数。她共获得6次雨果奖、6次星云奖、21次轨迹奖，还曾获美国国家图书奖、世界奇幻奖、卡夫卡奖、 号角书奖、纽伯瑞奖、小詹姆斯•提普翠奖等多项重量级奖项，更获得美国科幻奇幻作家协会“大师”称号、《洛杉矶时报》“罗伯特•基尔希终身成就奖”等荣誉。2000年，美国国会图书馆将她列为作家与艺术家中的“在世传奇”。2014年，她获得美国文学杰出贡献奖。 西方文学评论家将她列为“美国经典作家”，日本作家村上春树也对她推崇备至。 勒古恩，一个明明是传奇，却不愿被称为“传奇”的作家。她说：“我讨厌被称为‘传奇’，我站在这里，是个有血有肉的人。”

Winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards. A groundbreaking work of science fiction, The Left Hand of Darkness tells the story of a lone human emissary to Winter, an alien world whose inhabitants can change their gender. His goal is to facilitate Winter's inclusion in a growing intergalactic civilization. But to do so he must bridge the gulf between his own views and those of the co...(展开全部)

First published in England in 1970 by Faber and Faber Limited on copyright page 30/- in U.K. (old price) Creatures of Light and Darkness is a 1969 science fiction novel by American writer Roger Zelazny. Long out of print, it was reissued in April 2010. The novel is set in the far future, with humans on many worlds. Some have god-like powers, or perhaps are gods—the names and as...(展开全部)