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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... live in the flicker - may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling ! But darkness was here yesterday . Imagine the feelings of a commander of a fine - what d'ye call ' em ? — trireme in the Mediterranean , ordered suddenly to the ...
... live . Certainly they had brought with them some rotten hippo meat , which couldn't have lasted very long , anyway , even if the pilgrims hadn't , in the midst of a shocking hullabaloo , thrown a considerable quantity of it overboard ...
... live , and I shall see her , too , a tragic and familiar Shade , resembling in this gesture another one , tragic also , and bedecked with powerless charms , stretching bare brown arms over the glitter of the infernal stream , the stream ...