Heart of Darkness: Joseph Conrad's Most Famous Work (Timeless Classic Books)
- ISBN-10
- 1456324144
- ISBN-13
- 9781456324148
- Series
- Heart of Darkness
- Pages
- 96
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2010-11-05
- Author
- Joseph Conrad
Description
A novella, Heart of Darkness is Joseph Conrad's most famous work and a foundational text on the subject of colonialism. Heart of Darkness is based in part on a trip that Conrad took through modern-day Congo during his years as a sailor. He captained a ship that sailed down the Congo River. The story tells of Charles Marlow, an Englishman who took a foreign assignment from a Belgian trading company as a ferry-boat captain in Africa. Heart of Darkness exposes the myth behind colonization while exploring the three levels of darkness that the protagonist, Marlow, encounters--the darkness of the Congo wilderness, the darkness of the European's cruel treatment of the natives, and the unfathomable darkness within every human being for committing heinous acts of evil.
