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Heart of Darkness

by Joseph Conrad
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9789362870094
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Yatra Books - Vani Prakashan Group
  • Publisher Imprint: Yatra Books - Vani Prakashan Group
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 118
  • Original Price: INR 500.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 300 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Literary

Heart of Darkness, a novel by Joseph Conrad, originally appeared as a three-part series in Blackwood's Magazine in 1899. It is a story within a story, following a character named Charlie Marlow, who recounts his adventure to a group of men onboard an anchored ship. The story he tells is of his early life as a ferry boat captain. Although his job was to transport ivory downriver, Charlie develops an interest in Kurtz, an ivory procurement agent employed by the government. Preceded by his reputation as a brilliant emissary of progress, Kurtz has now established himself as a god among the natives in 'one of the darkest places on earth. Marlow suspects something else of Kurtz: he has gone mad.

Joseph Conrad (born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, Polish : 3 December 1857-3 August 1924) was a Polish-British novelist and story writer. He is regarded as one of the greatest writers in the English language. Although he did not speak English fluently until his twenties, he came to be regarded as a master prose stylist who brought a non-English sensibility into English literature. He wrote novels and stories, many in nautical settings, that depict crises of human individuality in the midst of what he saw as an indifferent, inscrutable, and amoral world.Conrad is considered a literary impressionist by some and an early modernist by others, though his works also contain elements of 19th-century realism. His narrative style and anti-heroic characters, as in Lord Jim, for example, have influenced numerous authors. Many dramatic films have been adapted from and inspired by his works. Numerous writers and critics have commented that his fictional works, written largely in the first two decades of the 20th-century, seem to have anticipated later world events.Writing near the peak of the British Empire, Conrad drew on the national experiences of his native Poland during nearly all his life, parcelled out among three occupying empires-and on his own experiences in the French and British merchant navies, to create short stories and novels that reflect aspects of a European-dominated world, including imperialism and colonialism, and that profoundly explore the human psyche.

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