Heart of darkness : with the Congo diary

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Title:

Heart of darkness : with the Congo diary

Author:

Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924.

ISBN:

9780140186529

Personal Author:

Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924.

Publication Information:

London ; New York : Penguin Books, 1995.

Physical Description:

li, 166 pages : map ; 20 cm.

Series:

Penguin twentieth-century classics

Penguin twentieth-century classics.

Contents:

Heart of darkness with The Congo diary.

Abstract:

A group of white men journeys up the Congo River to invade the jungles of the Belgian Congo, in an effort to rob the natives of their irovy.

Subject Term:

Europeans -- Africa -- Fiction.

Trading posts -- Fiction.

Degeneration -- Fiction.

Imperialism -- Fiction.

Geographic Term:

Africa -- Fiction.

Added Author:

Hampson, Robert.

Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924. Congo diary.

Added Title:

Congo diary.

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Searching... 1:VGDBN	1:GEN-BOOK	000014526	827.912 CON	1	Searching... Unknown

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Summary

Summary

Marlow voyages into the wildness and jungle of the Belgian Congo to meet Kurtz, a company agent, and having found him, realizes that Kurtz has won supremacy over the natives through unrestrained violence. The story explores the workings of the subconscious, and addresses political imperialism.

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