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Heart of Darkness: A Classic Novella of Empire, Darkness, and Moral Collapse
Hardcover
Mystery & ThrillerClassic FictionGeneral Fiction
ISBN13: 9781515435679
Publisher: SMK Books
Published: Apr 3 2018
Pages: 76
Weight: 0.63
Height: 0.31 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Heart of Darkness is Joseph Conrad's compact and unsettling classic of empire, moral collapse, and psychological darkness. Told through the voice of Charles Marlow, the novella follows a journey into the Congo interior in search of the mysterious ivory trader Kurtz, whose reputation has become almost legendary among the agents of a European trading company. What begins as an expedition through colonial territory becomes a descent into corruption, brutality, self-deception, and the fragile boundary between civilisation and savagery.
First published in serial form in 1899 and later collected in book form in 1902, Conrad's novella remains one of the most studied works of modern English literature. Its treatment of imperialism, race, violence, narrative ambiguity, and moral uncertainty has made it central to debates about colonial literature and literary modernism. For readers of classic fiction, British literature, psychological fiction, and novels of empire, Heart of Darkness remains a difficult, powerful, and enduring work.
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