Heart of Darkness

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: B093MQL5GN
• ISBN13: 9798717927451
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 82 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.0" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

A study of man

Heart of Darkness is well written. The idea of a storyteller in the story is not unique but very effective. We could ponder over 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, Kurtz, and Marlowe must find him. Traveling through harsher environments than he imagined possible, he may have found what he was seeking. As with many of this type of epic, the physical distance or direction is not as important as the transformation it plays on one’s soul. I missed this book somehow in school. The reason I started to read this book before I became immersed in it was to see how close it came to the movie. No, not the movie you are thinking of. "Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death" (1988). The film was shot primarily 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).