Two Tales of the Congo

This volume pairs two Conrad stories set on the Congo river system of the late nineteenth century. Heart of Darkness is framed as Marlow's account, on a Thames yacht, of his steamboat command up an African river for a continental trading company and of his meeting with the ivory agent Kurtz. An Outpost of Progress follows Kayerts and Carlier, two mediocre Company men left at a remote station with a store of ivory and a staff they barely understand; isolation, trade, and their own talk of civilization undo them. Both pieces treat European agents in the Free State trade. They are independent stories, not a continuous novel.

Bound in grey cloth blocked in black with an African effigy design. White dust-jacket printed in black.