'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 has become a godlike figure, his presence pervading the jungle like a thick, obscuring mist. As his boat labours further upstream, closer and closer to Kurtz's extraordinary and terrible domain, so Marlow finds his faith in himself and civilization crumbling.
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
Title: Heart of Darkness
Subtitle:
Contributors:
By (author)
Joseph Conrad
ISBN 13: 9780241956809
ISBN 10: 0241956803
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd
Publication Date: 5/04/2012
Place of Publication:
London,
United Kingdom
Edition:
BIC Subjects:
General & literary fiction
NBS Classification: General & Literary Fiction
Dewey Classification:
823.912
(DC23)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 112
Height: 181mm
Width: 111mm
Thickness: 6mm
Weight: 64g