Heart of Darkness: Classic Original Edition Illustrated

By: Conrad, Joseph

Heart of Darkness is a novella written by Polish-born writer Joseph Conrad (born J?zef 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0932CSQCZ
• ISBN13: 9798742124481
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 148 Pages
• Weight: 0.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

A study of man

Heart of Darkness is well written. The concept of a storyteller within the story isn't unique, but it works very well. We could spend quite some time thinking about the word darkness. The best way to understand it 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 ending. If it hadn't been for Cliff Notes, I would have missed half of what he was implying. A merchant company is missing an agent named Kurtz, and Marlow must find him. Traveling through tougher environments than expected, he might have discovered what he was looking for. Like many epic stories, the physical distance or direction isn't as important as the change it causes in a person’s soul. Joseph Campble described this type of journey well. I somehow missed this book in school. I initially started reading it before I got fully into it to see how much it resembled the movie. No, not the movie you're thinking of—"Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death" (1988). The film was primarily shot in the avocado groves maintained by the University of California, Riverside (UCR), which the university uses for horticultural research. Adrienne Barbeau plays Dr. Kurtz. The horror... the horror... So, you will want to see the movie “Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death” (1989) with Adrienne Barbeau as Dr. Kurtz. Alternatively, consider the adaptation “Apocalypse Now” (1979), in which Marlon Brando portrays Colonel Kurtz.