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Heart of Darkness by Joseph. Conrad (2020, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherAscent Audio

ISBN-101722503017

ISBN-139781722503017

eBay Product ID (ePID)25050377895

Product Key Features

Publication Year2020

Book TitleHeart of Darkness

TopicClassics, Literary, Action & Adventure

Number of Pages150 Pages

LanguageEnglish

GenreFiction

AuthorJoseph. Conrad

FormatTrade Paperback

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal823/.912

SynopsisHeart of Darkness is a novella written in 1899 by Anglo-Polish novelist Joseph Conrad. It is about a voyage into the Congo Free State in the heart of Africa, by the story's narrator Marlow, an introspective sailor who takes a job as a riverboat captain with the Company, a Belgian concern organized to trade in the Congo. Marlow, aboard a boat anchored on the River Thames in London, recounts to his friends the story of his assignment to journey up the Congo to retrieve and return Kurtz, an ivory hunter reputed to be an idealistic man of great abilities enjoying a reverenced effect on the natives, who delivers more ivory than all other stations combined. As Marlow travels to Africa and then up the Congo on the steamer ship, he encounters widespread inefficiency and brutality in the Company's stations. The native inhabitants of the region have been forced into the Company's service, and suffer terribly from overwork and ill treatment at the hands of the Company's agents. This setting provides the framework for Marlow's story of his obsession with Kurtz, and enables Conrad to create a parallel between London and Africa as places of darkness. Central to the book is the idea that there is little difference between so-called civilized people and those described as savages. Conrad raises important questions about imperialism and racism. The cruelty and squalor of this imperial enterprise contrasts sharply with the majestic jungle that surrounds the white man's settlements, making them appear to be tiny islands amidst a vast darkness., Heart of Darkness is about a voyage into the Congo Free State in the heart of Africa, by the story's narrator Marlow, an introspective sailor who takes a job as a riverboat captain with the Company, a Belgian concern organized to trade in the Congo.