Heart of DarknessDover Publications, 1990 M07 1 - 80 páginas Although Polish by birth, Joseph Conrad (1857–1924) is regarded as one of the greatest writers in English, and Heart of Darkness, first published in 1902, is considered by many his "most famous, finest, and most enigmatic story." — Encyclopaedia Britannica. The tale concerns the journey of the narrator (Marlow) up the Congo River on behalf of a Belgian trading company. Far upriver, he encounters the mysterious Kurtz, an ivory trader who exercises an almost godlike sway over the inhabitants of the region. Both repelled and fascinated by the man, Marlow is brought face to face with the corruption and despair that Conrad saw at the heart of human existence. |
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... appeared , mounds of turned- up earth by the shore , houses on a hill , others with iron roofs , amongst a waste of excavations , or hanging to the declivity . A continuous noise of the rapids above hovered over this scene of inhabited ...
... appearance indestructible solely by the virtue of his few years and of his unreflecting audacity . I was seduced into ... appeared about the most dangerous thing in every way he had come upon so far . " They had come together unavoidably ...
... appeared two days later , and was anxious to hear all the details about his dear relative's last moments . Incidentally he gave me to understand that Kurtz had been essentially a great musician . " There was the making of an immense ...