Heart of Darkness is a novella by Joseph Conrad. Before its 1902 publication, it appeared as a three-part series (1899) in Blackwood's Magazine. It is widely regarded as a significant work of English literature and part of the Western canon.

This highly symbolic story is actually a story within a story, or frame narrative. It follows Charles Marlow as he recounts, at dusk and into the evening, his adventure into the Congo to a group of men aboard a ship anchored in the Thames Estuary.

The story details an incident when Marlow, an Englishman, took a foreign assignment as a ferry-boat captain, employed by a Belgian trading company, on what readers may assume is the Congo River, in the Congo Free State, a private colony of King Leopold II; the country is never specifically named. Though his job is transporting ivory downriver, Marlow quickly develops an intense interest in investigating Kurtz, an ivory-procurement agent in the employ of the government. Kurtz has a reputation throughout the region.

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Dark allegory describes the narrator's journey up the Congo River and his meeting with, and fascination by, Mr. Kurtz, a mysterious personage who dominates the unruly inhabitants of the region. Masterly blend of adventure, character development, psychological penetration. Considered by many Conrad's finest, most enigmatic story.

About the Author:

Joseph Conrad (born Teodor Józef Konrad Korzeniowski, 3 December, 1857 – 3 August, 1924) was a Polish-born novelist. Some of his works have been labelled romantic: Conrad's supposed "romanticism" is heavily imbued with irony and a fine sense of man's capacity for self-deception. Many critics regard Conrad as an important forerunner of Modernist literature.

Conrad's narrative style and anti-heroic characters have influenced many writers, including Ernest Hemingway, D.H. Lawrence, Graham Greene, Joseph Heller and Jerzy Kosiński, as well as inspiring such films as Apocalypse Now (which was drawn from Conrad's Heart of Darkness).

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Useful Links:

• Heart of Darkness, available at Project Gutenberg .
• Heart of Darkness With Study Guide.
• Heart of Darkness, available as a printer-ready PDF from Ria Press.
• Heart of Darkness Study Notes from SparkNotes .
• Heart of Darkness from CliffsNotes .
• Heart of Darkness, full text and audio.
• Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad at Page By Page Books.
• Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad: A searchable online version at The Literature Network.
• Literary Critiques (from both sides) of Conrad's Heart of Darkness.
• Discussion of Heart of Darkness on BBC Radio 4 In Our Time series, 15th February 2007.
• Audio book recording with accompanying text of Heart of Darkness from LoudLit.org.
• Heart of Darkness, a free audiobook version from LibriVox .
• Heart of Darkness at American Literature.

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