by Roger Casement, Mark Twain, Arthur Conan Doyle, George Washington Williams · EDICIONES DEL VIENTO,S.L · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788496964488
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The Tragedy of the Congo is a book that compiles four fundamental documents to understand the magnitude of the tragedy that occurred in the Congo. In 1876, Leopold II of Belgium created the International African Association, financing Stanley's expedition to the Congo River. Europe and the United States supported this mission, believing it to be humanitarian and civilizing. However, Leopold II was allowed to carry out the extermination of the inhabitants of the region in search of wealth. The denunciatory texts that emerged made public opinion aware of the reality.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, and essayist. He has been praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced", with William Faulkner calling him "the father of American literature". Twain's novels include The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), with the latter often called the "Great American Novel". He also wrote A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889) and Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894) and cowrote The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today (1873) with Charles Dudley Warner.
