Colonialism & imperialism

Heart of Darkness

by Joseph Conrad

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Heart of Darkness (1899) is a novella by Polish-British novelist Joseph Conrad, about a voyage up the Congo River into the Congo Free State, in the heart of Africa, by the story's narrator Charles Marlow. Marlow tells his story to friends aboard a boat anchored on the River Thames, London, England. This setting provides the frame for Marlow's story of his obsession with the ivory trader Kurtz, which enables Conrad to create a parallel between London and Africa as places of darkness.

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Joseph Conrad was a Polish-British writer regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language. He joined the British merchant marine in 1878, and was granted British nationality in 1886. Though he did not speak English fluently until his twenties, he was a master prose stylist who brought a non-English sensibility into English literature. He wrote stories and novels, many with a nautical setting, that depict trials of the human spirit in the midst of an impassive, inscrutable universe.

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  • Publisher Example Books
  • Publication Date March 1905
  • Orginal LanguageEnglish
  • ISBN/Identifier 9780123456779
  • Publication Country or regionUnited Kingdom
  • FormatPaperback
  • Primary Price 14.99 GBP
  • Pages593
  • ReadershipGeneral
  • Publish StatusPublished
  • Copyright Year1900
  • Dimensions17.5x26 cm

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