Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness

[J_BlueFlower]

Are those two books Heart of Darkness and Heart of Darkness actually the same – just different editions? Should they be combined? I believe so, but I am not sure.

[Bea]

Yes, it appears so but only a super librarian can do so.

[Elizabeth (Alaska)]

That must be a new restriction.

[Abcdarian]

It says "Sorry, only a super-librarian can combine or separate a book with more than 10000 reviews." wow.

[Banjomike]

The first link points to what seems to be the earliest edition of Heart of Darkness on Goodreads, added May 17, 2008. How come it is not combined? Have all the others been separated AWAY from it?

And I don't know of any changes to combines or merges.

[Elizabeth (Alaska)]

Banjomike wrote: "The first link points to what seems to be the earliest edition of Heart of Darkness on Goodreads, added May 17, 2008. How come it is not combined? Have all the others been separated AWAY from it?

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In looking at the librarian log, it looks as if the title was changed. I have it shelved and I believe it used to contain "and the Congo Diaries", but I'm not certain. In any case, it can't be combined now because of an apparent change in policy having to do with super-librarians and 10,000 reviews.

[Banjomike]

Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "In looking at the librarian log, it looks as if the title was changed. I have it shelved and I believe it used to contain "and the Congo Diaries", but I'm not certain. In any case, it can't be combined now because of an apparent change in policy having to do with super-librarians and 10,000 reviews. "

From the publisher site it looks like that edit is correct.

I'll have a go at combining. With that number of editions and shelvings I would expect a timeout.

[Banjomike]

Well, no timeout but there are now 755 EXTRA entries in the log.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/edits/...

Edit: I expect the cache needs to catch up but this is the editions page:
https://www.goodreads.com/work/editio...

Edited to add "EXTRA"

[Lobstergirl]

If you want to be a rules stickler, those two editions should not be combined because one contains supplemental material. Assuming one is "Heart of Darkness" and one is "Heart of Darkness and the Congo Diaries." Note that the Dover edition has 72 pp. and the Green Integer edition has 200 pages. Although some of that could be due to the fact that Green Integer is a small-format book.

In the edition I read (neither one of these), the Congo Diaries are pretty short. Maybe somewhere between 10 and 25 pages. But it always seems like the edition of them in "Heart of Darkness" causes massive confusion.

[Banjomike]

Many of the editions have extra stuff. The entire Heart of Darkness block needs sorting out but having the most popular edition off on its own did not make much sense.

[Elizabeth (Alaska)]

Having supplemental material does not in itself prevent combining. Norton Critical Editions are combined with works that have no supplemental material. However, I agree on this one, that having two titles/works makes it different from those that contain only one title/work.

[Lobstergirl]

In this particular case I would be in favor of all "Heart of Darkness" editions being combined with all of those HoD editions that also contain Congo Diary. The reasons being Congo Diary is pretty short, and it's not a novella or a short story. It's just Conrad's diary of the journey he took in the Congo that led to him writing the novella. If I recall, each diary entry might be as short as a few words, never more than a few sentences. That's why it's often included with "Heart of Darkness," because the novella is based on his little travelogue.

To confuse matters further, often just selections from the Congo Diary are published with HofD, not the entire diary.

[J_BlueFlower]

They have been combined now, and now have a combined 201,288 ratings.