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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... shadow , high houses , innumer- able windows with venetian blinds , a dead silence , grass sprouting be- tween the stones , imposing carriage archways right and left , immense double doors standing ponderously ajar . I slipped through ...
... shadow fell to the water's edge . Her face had a tragic and fierce aspect of wild sorrow and of dumb pain mingled ... shadows darted out on the earth , swept around on the river , gathering the steamer into a shadowy embrace . A ...
... shadow insatiable of splendid appearances , of frightful realities ; a shadow darker than the shadow of the night , and draped nobly in the folds of a gorgeous eloquence . The vision seemed to enter the house with me - the stretcher ...