Heart of Darkness is a novella written by Joseph Conrad. Before its 1902 publication, it appeared as a three-part series (1899) in Blackwood's Magazine. It is widely regarded as a significant work of English literature and part of the Western canon.
The story details an incident when Marlow, an Englishman, took a foreign assignment from a Belgian trading company as a ferry-boat captain in Africa. Although Conrad does not specify the name of the r...
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Heart of Darkness
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Joseph Conrad
Joseph Conrad (born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski; 3 December 1857 – 3 August 1924) was a Polish-born British novelist, who in 1886 became a British subject.
He is regarded as one of the greatest novelists in English though he did not speak the language fluently until he was in his twenties (and...
Copyright date:
- 1902
Subjects:
- Imperialism
- Degeneration
- Africa
- Classics
- Literature
- Literary
- Espionage
- 19th century
- Literary criticism
- English Literature
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