Imprint: Penguin
Published: 05/04/2012
ISBN: 9780241956809
Length: 112 Pages
Dimensions: 181mm x 6mm x 111mm
Weight: 67g
RRP: £7.99
'Hunters for gold or pursuers of fame, they all had gone out on that stream, bearing the sword, and often the torch, messengers of the might within the land, bearers of a spark from the sacred fire.'
Marlow, a seaman, tells of a journey up the Congo. His goal is the troubled European and ivory trader Kurtz. Worshipped and feared by invaders as well as natives, Kurtz has become a godlike figure, his presence pervading the jungle like a thick, obscuring mist. As his boat labours further upstream, closer and closer to Kurtz's extraordinary and terrible domain, so Marlow finds his faith in himself and civilization crumbling.
Imprint: Penguin
Published: 05/04/2012
ISBN: 9780241956809
Length: 112 Pages
Dimensions: 181mm x 6mm x 111mm
Weight: 67g
RRP: £7.99
As powerful a condemnation of imperialism as has ever been written
Once experienced, it is hard to let Heart of Darkness go. A masterpiece of surprise, of expression and psychological nuance, of fury at colonial expansion and of how men make the least of life . . . endlessly readable and worthy of rereading