Bibliograph

Heart of darkness & selections from the Congo diary

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Heart of darkness & selections from the Congo diary

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Heart of darkness & selections from the Congo diary

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Summary

In Heart of Darkness, Polish-British author Joseph Conrad deploys atmosphere, ambiguity and nuance to spin a languid tale of intrigue and madness in late 19th-century Colonial Africa. The story's narrator, Marlow, tells of a trip up the Congo River to rescue a legendary ivory trader, Kurtz, from a mysterious illness. Considered Conrad's masterpiece, and one of the greatest novels of the 20th century (it was written and serialized in 1899 but not published in book form until 1902), others have condemned the dehumanizing depictions of Africans as racist and outdated

Target audience

adult

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Heart of darkness and selections from The Congo diary

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