I read and reviewed each of the three novellas in here separately, so this is really just for my own records. The 3 star rating is an average of the individual ratings: both "The End of the Tether" (which has excellent characterisation and is the pick of the bunch) and "Youth" (unintentionally funny but still entertaining) got 3 stars each. "Heart of Darkness", on the other hand, only got 2. I'm aware that it's supposed to be the pick of Conrad's work, and it was well-written - if less so than "Tether" - but everyone in it's so nasty and monotonously grim that I was glad to see the back of it.