Heart of Darkness

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Denton & White, Jul 9, 2013 - Fiction - 134 pages
Heart of Darkness is the classic novella about Charles Marlow, an ivory transporter on the Congo River in Central Africa, who becomes obsessed by Mr. Kurtz, a notorious ivory procurement agent. The story deals with the conflict between savagery and civilization, and ranks as one of the best works of literature in the Western canon.

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Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) was a Polish writer who settled in England. While he was granted British nationality, he always considered himself a Pole first. His best known work, Heart of Darkness, inspired the movie Apocalypse Now.

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