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Heart of Darkness

Heart of Darkness

Conrad, Joseph

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Classic FictionLiterary Fiction

ISBN10: 172494620X
ISBN13: 9781724946201
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Aug 8 2018
Pages: 44
Weight: 0.28
Height: 0.09 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.00
Language: English
Aboard the Nellie, anchored in the River Thames near Gravesend, England, Charles Marlow tells his fellow sailors about the events that led to his appointment as captain of a river steamboat for an ivory trading company. As a child, Marlow had been fascinated by the blank spaces on maps, particularly by the biggest, which by the time he had grown up was no longer blank but turned into a place of darkness. Yet there remained a big river, resembling an immense snake uncoiled, with its head in the sea, its body at rest curving afar over a vast country and its tail lost in the depths of the land. The image of this river on the map fascinated Marlow as a snake would a bird. Feeling as though instead of going to the centre of a continent I were about to set off for the centre of the earth, Marlow takes passage on a French steamer bound for the African coast and then into the interior. Joseph Conrad was a Polish-British writer regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language.

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