Heart of DarknessAlthough 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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We looked at the venerable stream not in the vivid flush of a short day that comes
and departs forever, but in the august light of abiding memories. And indeed
nothing is easier for a man who has, as the phrase goes, "followed the sea" with ...
The sun set; the dusk fell on the stream, and lights began to appear along the
shore. The Chapman lighthouse, a three-legged thing erect on a mud-flat, shone
strongly. Lights of ships moved in the fairway — a great stir of lights going up and
...
... 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 of darkness. She said suddenly very low,
...
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| Título | Heart of Darkness Dover Thrift Editions |
| Autor | Joseph Conrad |
| Edición | reimpresa |
| Editor | Dover Publications, 1990 |
| ISBN | 0486264645, 9780486264646 |
| Largo | 80 páginas |
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