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Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad
其他書名
'As Powerful a Condemnation of Imperialism as Has Ever Been Written'
出版Amazon Digital Services LLC - KDP Print US, 2019-02-14
主題Fiction / GeneralFiction / Action & AdventureFiction / ClassicsFiction / HorrorFiction / LiteraryFiction / Short Stories (single author)
ISBN17968976049781796897609
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=h4JVwgEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋Heart of Darkness is a novella written by Polish-born writer Joseph Conrad (born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski). 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.This highly symbolic story is actually a story within a story, or frame narrative. It follows Marlow as he recounts, from dusk through to late night, his adventure into the Congo to a group of men aboard a ship anchored in the Thames Estuary.The story details an incident when Marlow, an Englishman, took a foreign assignment as a ferry-boat captain, employed by a Belgian trading company. Although the river is never specifically named, readers may assume it is the Congo River, in the Congo Free State, a private colony of King Leopold II. Marlow is employed to transport ivory downriver; however, his more pressing assignment is to return Kurtz, another ivory trader, to civilization in a cover up. Kurtz has a reputation throughout the region.