HEART OF DARKNESS Joseph Conrad - 9781973942818
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Heart of Darkness is a novella written by Polish-born writer Joseph Conrad (born Jozef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski). Before its 1902 publication, it appeared as a three-part series (1899) in Blackwood's Magazine. It is widely regarded as a significant work of English literature and part of the Western canon. This highly symbolic story is actually a story within a story, or frame narrative. It follows Marlow as he recounts, from dusk through to late night, his adventure into the Congo to a group of men aboard a ship anchored in the Thames Estuary. The story details an incident when Marlow, an Englishman, took a foreign assignment as a ferry-boat captain, employed by a Belgian trading company. Although the river is never specifically named, readers may assume it is the Congo River, in the Congo Free State, a private colony of King Leopold II. Marlow is employed to transport ivory downriver; however, his more pressing assignment is to return Kurtz, another ivory trader, to civilization in a cover up. Kurtz has a reputation throughout the region.
- | Author: Joseph Conrad
- | Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- | Publication Date: Jul 26, 2017
- | Number of Pages: 54 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 197394281X
- | ISBN-13: 9781973942818
- Author:
- Joseph Conrad
- Publisher:
- CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- Publication Date:
- Jul 26, 2017
- Number of pages:
- 54 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 197394281X
- ISBN-13:
- 9781973942818