Heart of Darkness

Name: Heart of Darkness
Brand: Penguin Books Ltd
SKU: 9780241956809
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By (author): Joseph Conrad

'Hunters for gold or pursuers of fame, they all had gone out on that stream, bearing the sword, and often the torch, messengers of the might within the land, bearers of a spark from the sacred fire.'

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 further upstream, closer and closer to Kurtz's extraordinary and terrible domain, so Marlow finds his faith in himself and civilization crumbling.

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Weight: 69g
Dimensions: 110 x 181mm
Publication Date: 05 Apr 2012
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780241956809

About Joseph Conrad

Joseph Conrad was born in the Ukraine in 1857 and grew up under Tsarist autocracy. In 1874 Conrad travelled to Marseilles where he served in French merchant vessels before joining a British ship in 1878 as an apprentice. In 1886 he obtained British nationality. Eight years later he left the sea to devote himself to writing publishing his first novel Almayer's Folly in 1895. The following year he settled in Kent where he produced The Nigger of the 'Narcissus' (1897) Heart of Darkness (1899) Lord Jim (1900) and the political novels Nostromo (1904) The Secret Agent (1907) and Under Western Eyes (1911). He continued to write until his death in 1924.