Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

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Always visible content "Heart of Darkness" by Joseph Conrad is a novella published in 1899. Sailor C ... ph Conrad is a novella published in 1899. Sailor Charles Marlow recounts his journey as a steamer captain for a Belgian company deep into the African interior. His assignment: to find Kurtz, an ivory trader who has mysteriously "gone native" at a remote station upriver. Conrad's tale explores European colonialism, power, and morality while questioning the boundary between civilization and savagery. The novella provides a dark meditation on Hidden checkbox to control the toggle Clickable label to show more The extra text that is initially hidden Clickable label to show less imperialism, drawing unsettling parallels between London and Africa as places shrouded in darkness. (This is an automatically generated summary.)