Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness: Joseph Conrad (Penguin Essentials, 23) [2012] mass_market

by Conrad, Joseph3

ISBN: 9780241956809

Published: 2012

Marlow, a seaman, tells of a journey up the Congo. His goal is the troubled European and ivory trader Kurtz. Worshipped and feared by invaders as well as natives, Kurtz has become a godlike figure, his presence pervading the jungle like a thick, obscuring mist. As his boat labours upstream, Marlow finds his faith in civilization crumbling.