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by: Joseph Conrad  Dewey Decimal Number: 823.912 EAN: 9780001050495 Edition: Abridged Format: Abridged, Audiobook ISBN: 0001050494 Label: Trafalgar Square Publishing Manufacturer: Trafalgar Square Publishing Number Of Items: 1 Publication Date: 1999-09 Publisher: Trafalgar Square Publishing Studio: Trafalgar Square Publishing Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: First published in 1902, Conrad's story describes intensely and in stark detail how greed can so easily drive civilised and enlightened men to revert to primitive savagery. Set against the background of the European ivory trade in Africa, Heart Of Darkness is narrator Marlow's account of his journey in search of the legendary and mystical Kurtz, the most successful trader of them all, who is now reported to be ill. Marlow's quest becomes both a harrowing journey of self-discovery and haunting description of the brutality of colonial exploitation; while Kurtz himself is one of the most memorable creations in modern fiction. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Colonialism/Antin-colonialismJoseph Conrad is an amazing writer; he uses the English language of the late 19th and early 20th centuries beautifully, he describes the colonial world at its apogee, he tells engrossing stories but even his seemingly potboiler plots (such as The Secret Sharer) raise disturbingly serious moral issues. All of these qualities are epitomized in The Heart of Darkness. Can anyone read the Heart of Darkness without thinking of Apocalypse Now? I believe the movie is one of the best adaptations of literature ... Read More Rating: - powerful book Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad One of the first masterpieces of the 20th century and one of the key modernist text. This is a story that everyone should read, and Kindle edition provides the best format for the reading experience. Rating: - humidity drips off the end of each line like a light mist in a heavy fogProbably the dampest book I've ever read--humidity drips off the end of each line like a light mist in a heavy fog. More is left unsaid than is written on the page, and this is truly a classic even though there is too much left unsaid for me to rate it at the very top. Favorite line: As Marlow cautiously pilots the steamboat up the river toward the inland station and its mysterious keeper Kurtz, his manager says "I authorize you to take all the risks." Marlow curtly snaps back "I refuse to ... Read More Rating: - An excellent piece of epistemology!On page 3, the narrator (not Marlow) tells us that "Marlow was not typical (if his propensity to spin yarns be excepted), and to him the meaning of an episode was not inside like a kernel but outside, enveloping the tale which brought it out only as a glow brings out a haze, in the likeness of one of these misty halos that sometimes are made visible by the spectral illumination of moonshine." This story is not typical. Its meaning isn't inside the text; rather, the text requires its meaning to be ... Read More Rating:  - Very, Very Short and UnremarkableLike most people, I was familiar with Heart of Darkness, both as an acclaimed work of literature and as the inspiration for the remarkable movie Apocolypse Now. For some reason, I recently decided to make an attempt at reading it, despite my concern that it was written at a level beyond my capacity to understand. Upon receipt of the volume from Amazon, I was initially under the impression that I had mistakenly ordered the Cliff's Notes version of the work. I had no idea that the book was essentially ... Read More 
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