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Heart of Darkness
Contributor(s): Ukray, Murat (Illustrator), Conrad, Joseph (Author)

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 ISBN: 1500840858     ISBN-13: 9781500840853
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
OUR PRICE: $12.34  

Binding Type: Paperback
Published: August 2014
* Out of Print *
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Classics
Dewey: FIC
Lexile Measure: 970(Not Available)
Physical Information: 0.42" H x 5" W x 8" L (0.45 lbs) 184 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - African
Accelerated Reader Info
Quiz #: 8659
Reading Level: 9.0   Interest Level: Upper Grades   Point Value: 10.0
 
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Publisher Description:
Heart of Darkness (1899) is a short novel by Joseph Conrad, written as a frame narrative, about Charles Marlow's life as an ivory transporter down the Congo River in Central Africa. The river is "a mighty big river, that you could see on the map, resembling an immense snake uncoiled, with its head in the sea, its body at rest curving afar over a vast country, and its tail lost in the depths of the land." In the course of his travel in central Africa, Marlow becomes obsessed with Mr. Kurtz. The story is a complex exploration of the attitudes people hold on what constitutes a barbarian versus a civilized society and the attitudes on colonialism and racism that were part and parcel of European imperialism. Originally published as a three-part serial story, in Blackwood's Magazine, the novella Heart of Darkness has been variously published and translated into many languages. In 1998, the Modern Library ranked Heart of Darkness as the sixty-seventh of the hundred best novels in English of the twentieth century. Short Summary Aboard the Nellie, anchored in the River Thames near Gravesend, England, Charles Marlow tells his fellow sailors about the events that led to his appointment as captain of a river-steamboat for an ivory trading company. He describes his passage on ships to the wilderness to the Company's station, which strikes Marlow as a scene of devastation: disorganized, machinery parts here and there, periodic demolition explosions, weakened native black men who have been demoralized, in chains, literally being worked to death, and strolling behind them a white Company man in a uniform carrying a rifle. At this station Marlow meets the Company's chief accountant who tells him of a Mr. Kurtz, and explains that Kurtz is a first-class agent.
 
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