Heart of Darkness (Phoenix Classics)

Heart of Darkness (Phoenix Classics)

by Phoenix Classics and Joseph Conrad
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 12/06/2017

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

ISBN:
9788826453422
9788826453422
Category:
Classic fiction
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
12-06-2017
Language:
English
Publisher:
Phoenix Classics

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