Jan 6, 2010

Journey into a Dark Heart | What Do I Read Next?

Edwin A. Abbott's classic Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (1884) is a short, mathematical, fantasy novel featuring a flat, two-dimensional world inhabited by geometric shapes. When one resident, A. Square (which is also the pseudonym under which Abbott originally published the novel), discovers the third dimension, he is forced to change his assumptions about reality.

Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, originally published in 1899, details the journey of the narrator, Marlow, into the Belgian Congo. Marlow is sent to find a company agent who has gone mad and...