Heart of Darkness'Heart of Darkness' is a complex exploration of the attitudes people hold on what constitutes a barbarian versus a civilized society and the attitudes on colonialism and racism that were part and parcel of European imperialism. In 1998, the Modern Library ranked 'Heart of Darkness' as the sixty-seventh of the hundred best novels in English of the twentieth century. |
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