Heart of Darkness, The Man Who Would Be King, and Other Works on Empire, A Longman Cultural Edition

David Damrosch is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, and past president of the American Comparative Literature Association. He has written widely on world literature from antiquity to the present. His admired books, with lively appeal not only to the academic world but also to general readers, include The Narrative Covenant (1987), What Is World Literature? (2003), and The Buried Book: The Loss and Rediscovery of the Great Epic of Gilgamesh (2007). In addition to editing the Longman Cultural Edition of Joseph Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness,” Rudyard Kipling’s ”The Man Who Would be King,” and Other Works on Empire, he is the inspired genius, founding force, and general editor of the first three editions of the six-volume Longman Anthology of British Literature and now general editor of The Longman Anthology of World Literature.

• List of IllustrationsAbout Longman Cultural EditionsAbout This EditionIntroductionTable of DatesRudyard Kipling: Poems and StoriesA Tale of Two CitiesThe Last DepartmentThe Widow at WindsorTommyThe Young British SoldierFuzzy-WuzzyGunga DinMandalayRecessionalThe White Man’s BurdenUlster 1912[Footnotes to Kipling Poems]Without Benefit of Clergy[Footnotes to Kipling, Without Benefit of Clergy]The Man Who Would Be King[Footnotes to “The Man Who Would Be King”]Contexts: Empire and Its DiscontentsEdward Lear: “The Akond of Swat”Hilaire Belloc: “I, the Poor Indian, justly called ‘The Poor’”“The Llama”W. S. Gilbert: “The British Tar”“The Darned Mounseer”“The King of Canoodle-Dum”Christina Rossetti, “In the Round Tower at Jhansi, June 8, 1857”Ghalib: from Dastambu: A Bouquet of Flowers“Now every English soldier that bears arms”Bahadur Shah II: “I am not the light of anyone’s eye”“I cannot bring myself to like this despoiled wilderness”Major R.C.W. Mitford, from To Cabul with the Cavalry BrigadeHoward Hensman, from The Afghan War of 1879-80[Footnotes to Contexts: Empire)]Joseph Conrad: Heart of DarknessContexts: The Scramble for AfricaOlaudah Equiano, from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah EquianoHenry Morton Stanley, from Through the Dark Continentfrom Address to the Manchester Chamber of CommerceJoseph Conrad, from Congo DiaryRoger Casement, from Report to Parliament on the Congo[Footnotes to Contexts: The Scramble for Africa”Further Reading