Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad - Paperback

Horror awaits Marlow, a seaman assigned by an ivory company to retrieve a cargo boat and one of its employees, Mr. Kurtz who is stranded in the heart of the Africa, deep in the Belgian Congo. Marlows journey up the brooding dark river soon becomes a struggle to maintain his own sanity as he witnesses the brutalization of the natives by white traders and discovers the enigmatic Mr. Kurtz. Kurtz, once a genius and the companys most successful representative, has become a savage. His compound is d

Joseph Conrada s Heart of Darkness was first published in 1899 in serial form in Londona s Blackwooda s Magazine. Loosely based on Conrada s firsthand experience of rescuing a company agent...

Marlow, the storys narrator, tells of his involvement in the British Congo with a greedy, treacherous ivory trader named Kurtz who cruelly exploited the natives there.