"A large part of the materials accompanying the text is devoted to the Congo's colonial past, a history of violence that quickly overshadows the story. At the same time, new critical approaches ranging from terrorism to ecocriticism demand we think Conrad's text anew. . . . Paul Armstrong's erudition in Conrad and modernism studies is everywhere apparent in the new edition-from the presentation of the resources in his introduction to the choice of new materials to supplement the impressive corpus of resources previously available." -YAEL LEVIN, Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History, on the Fifth Edition