Heart of Darkness (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)
Books / Paperback
ISBN: 0140281630 / Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Inc., February 1999
Marlowe sails down the Congo in search of Kurtz, a company agent who has, according to rumors, become insane in the jungle isolation
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A masterpiece of twentieth-century writing, Heart of Darkness exposes the tenuous fabric that holds "civilization" together and the brutal horror at the center of European colonialism. Conrad's crowning achievement recounts Marlow's physical and psychological journey deep into the heart of the Belgian Congo in search of the mysterious trader Kurtz.
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