CONGO (See Cover)The tom-tom must beat this night to call our warriors to the fight. Everywhere in the bush the army of warriors must answer this ancestral call. —Moise Tshombe, on the eve of the U.N.

125 years after it was first serialized in three installments in Blackwood’s Magazine in 1899, Joseph Conrad’s novella Heart of Darkness continues to be widely read and to be scrutinized by teachers, ...

First, it’s a nostalgic thrill to see the book I held on the first reading. This one, pictured below, is a 1983 Penguin English Library paperback. The RRP on the back cover is $2.95. The front cover ...