Heart of Darkness
'As Powerful a Condemnation of Imperialism as Has Ever Been Written'
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- Paperback
112 pages
- Release Date
12 June 2012
Summary
New edition of the Penguin Essential telling the shocking story of the horrors lurking within the human soul.
‘Hunters for gold or pursuers of fame, they all had gone out on that stream, bearing the sword, and often the torch, messengers of the might within the land, bearers of a spark from the sacred fire.’
Marlow, a seaman, tells of a journey up the Congo. His goal is the troubled European and ivory trader Kurtz. Worshipped and feared by invaders as well as natives, Kurtz ha…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241956809 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0241956803 |
| Author: | Joseph Conrad |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 112 |
| Release Date: | 12 June 2012 |
| Weight: | 78g |
| Dimensions: | 180mm x 110mm x 9mm |
| Series: | Penguin Essentials |
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As powerful a condemnation of imperialism as has ever been written
As powerful a condemnation of imperialism as has ever been written * Observer *
Once experienced, it is hard to let Heart of Darkness go. A masterpiece of surprise, of expression and psychological nuance, of fury at colonial expansion and of how men make the least of life … endlessly readable and worthy of rereading * Telegraph *
About The Author
Joseph Conrad
Joseph Conrad was born in the Ukraine in 1857 and grew up under Tsarist autocracy. In 1874 Conrad travelled to Marseilles, where he served in French merchant vessels before joining a British ship in 1878 as an apprentice. In 1886 he obtained British nationality. Eight years later he left the sea to devote himself to writing, publishing his first novel, Almayer’s Folly, in 1895. The following year he settled in Kent, where he produced The Nigger of the ‘Narcissus’ (1897), Heart of Darkness (1899), Lord Jim (1900) and the political novels Nostromo (1904), The Secret Agent (1907) and Under Western Eyes (1911). He continued to write until his death in 1924.
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