Youth, Heart of Darkness, The End of the Tether

''Youth'', Heart of Darkness and ''The End of the Tether'' make up Conrad''s most celebrated collection of short narratives. Heart of Darkness forms its sombre centrepiece: set in the Congo of the 1890s, this haunting and widely influential Modernist masterpiece explores the limits of human experience as well as the nightmarish realities and consequences of imperialism. The Cambridge edition prese...