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Heart of Darkness
by Joseph Conrad
ISBN: 142182339X
ISBN-13: 9781421823393
Format: Hardcover
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Summary
In HEART OF DARKNESS, Conrad's most existential hero, Marlow, is the commander of a riverboat looking for ivory to trade in the Belgian Congo. His journey into the heart of the Congo is both a thrilling adventure and a symbolic excursion into the depths of the human psyche to confront the evil that exists there. Marlow's encounter with the mysterious and corrupted Kurtz, who dies proclaiming the "horror" of what he found in the Congo, is the novel's defining moment, when Marlow recognizes his kinship with Kurtz's corruption. This insight enables Marlow to retreat from Kurtz's world and return to England. Kurtz, in his attempts to reconcile his noble ideas with his greed, can't survive.
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"Joseph Conrad's 'Heart of Darkness' was one of the most profound books of my formative years. I have never forgotten it." -- Patricia Cornwell
Bibliographic Details
Publisher: 1st World Library
Published date: 2006
Size: 5.75 x 8.75 inches
Weight: 0.62 pounds
Pages: 101
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