Heart of Darkness - 9781986839396

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.

• • Author: Joseph Conrad, Jv Editors
• • Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• • Publication Date: Mar 25, 2018
• • Number of Pages: 134 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Paperback
• • ISBN-10: 1986839397
• • ISBN-13: 9781986839396