Heart of darkness

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Title:

Heart of darkness

Author:

Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924.

ISBN:

9780486264646

Personal Author:

Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924.

Publication Information:

New York : Dover, 1990.

Physical Description:

v, 72 pages ; 21 cm.

Series:

Dover thrift editions

Dover thrift editions.

General Note:

"Republication of the story originally published in the volume Youth, a narrative, and two other stories by William Blackwood & Sons, Edinburgh and London, in 1902"--Title page verso.

Abstract:

Dark allegory describes the narrator's journey up the Congo River and his meeting with, and fascination by, Mr. Kurtz, a mysterious personage who dominates the unruly inhabitants of the region. Masterly blend of adventure, character development, psychological penetration. Considered by many Conrad's finest, most enigmatic story.

Subject Term:

Europeans -- Africa -- Fiction.

Trading posts -- Fiction.

Degeneration -- Fiction.

Imperialism -- Fiction.

Geographic Term:

Africa -- Fiction.

Electronic Access:

Publisher description http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/description/dover032/90003492.html

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Summary

Although Polish by birth, Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) is regarded as one of the greatest writers in English, and Heart of Darkness, first published in 1902, is considered by many his "most famous, finest, and most enigmatic story." -- Encyclopaedia Britannica . The tale concerns the journey of the narrator (Marlow) up the Congo River on behalf of a Belgian trading company. Far upriver, he encounters the mysterious Kurtz, an ivory trader who exercises an almost godlike sway over the inhabitants of the region. Both repelled and fascinated by the man, Marlow is brought face to face with the corruption and despair that Conrad saw at the heart of human existence.
In its combination of narrative and symbolic power, masterly character study and acute psychological penetration, Heart of Darkness ranks as a landmark of modern fiction. It is a book no serious student of literature can afford to miss.