Heart of Darkness: Annotated

By: Conrad, Joseph

In this book summary, study guide, character list, Themes are included as bonus.Heart of Darkness (1899) is a novella by Polish-British novelist Joseph Conrad about a narrated voyage up the Congo River into the Congo Free State in the so-called Heart of Africa. Charles Marlow, the narrator, tells his story to friends aboard a boat anchored on the River Thames. This setting provides the frame for Marlow's story of his obsession with the ivory trader Kurtz, which enables Conrad to create a parallel between what Conrad calls "the greatest town on earth", London, and Africa as places of darkness.Central to Conrad's work is the idea that there is little difference between so-called civilised people and those described as savages; Heart of Darkness raises questions about imperialism and racism.Originally issued as a three-part serial story in Blackwood's Magazine to celebrate the thousandth edition of the magazine, Heart of Darkness has been widely re-published and translated into many languages. It provided the inspiration for Francis Ford Coppola's 1979 film Apocalypse Now. In 1998, the Modern Library ranked Heart of Darkness 67th on their list of the 100 best novels in English of the twentieth centu

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1696542111
• ISBN13: 9781696542111
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 98 Pages
• Weight: 0.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

A study of man - annotation is a smart idea

Heart of Darkness is well written. The idea of a storyteller within the story is not unique, but it is very effective. We could ponder the word darkness for quite some time. The best way to ponder is with Cliff's Notes. I wanted him to get on with it. I guess I was a little impatient for the action and the conclusion. If it hadn't been for Cliff Notes, I would have missed half the things he was implying. A merchant company is missing an agent named Kurtz, and Marlowe must find him. Traveling through harsher environments than he expected, he may have discovered what he was seeking. As with many epic stories like this, the physical distance or direction isn't as important as the transformation it causes in one’s soul. I somehow missed this book in school. The reason I started reading it before I got fully into it was to see how closely it resembled the movie. No, not the movie you're thinking of. "Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death" (1988). The film was mainly shot in the avocado groves maintained by the University of California at Riverside (UCR), which the university uses for horticultural experiments. Adrienne Barbeau is Dr. Kurtz. The horror.... the horror... So, you will want to see the movie “Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death” (1989) by Adrienne Barbeau as Dr. Kurtz. Or another adaptation, “Apocalypse Now” (1979).