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Title details for Heart of Darkness - British Heritage Database Reader-Printable Edition by Joseph Conrad - Available

Heart of Darkness - British Heritage Database Reader-Printable Edition

by Joseph Conrad
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“The yarns of seamen,” writes Joseph Conrad, “have a direct simplicity, the whole meaning of which lies within the shell of a cracked nut.” Not so the enigmatically atmospheric tale recounted by the seafarer Marlow. On behalf of a European ivory-trading company he ventures into the interior of late nineteenth-century colonial Africa to take command of a river steamboat. He learns of the company’s most successful agent, the remarkable Mr Kurtz, and is sent to rescue him from deep in the jungle of the Dark Continent. In a skilfully narrated series of dramatic and menacing incidents, Marlow encounters greed, brutality and danger, finally confronting in the depraved and dying Kurtz the harrowing consequences of corrupted idealism. Heart of Darkness was first published in instalments in 1899: this British Heritage Database edition is based on the revised text of 1921 and may be printed for personal use.
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Publisher: Cultural Resources

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  • ISBN: 190380731X
  • Release date: June 26, 2002

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  • ISBN: 190380731X
  • File size: 667 KB
  • Release date: June 26, 2002

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Classic Literature Fiction Literature

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“The yarns of seamen,” writes Joseph Conrad, “have a direct simplicity, the whole meaning of which lies within the shell of a cracked nut.” Not so the enigmatically atmospheric tale recounted by the seafarer Marlow. On behalf of a European ivory-trading company he ventures into the interior of late nineteenth-century colonial Africa to take command of a river steamboat. He learns of the company’s most successful agent, the remarkable Mr Kurtz, and is sent to rescue him from deep in the jungle of the Dark Continent. In a skilfully narrated series of dramatic and menacing incidents, Marlow encounters greed, brutality and danger, finally confronting in the depraved and dying Kurtz the harrowing consequences of corrupted idealism. Heart of Darkness was first published in instalments in 1899: this British Heritage Database edition is based on the revised text of 1921 and may be printed for personal use.
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Classic Literature Fiction Literature