Heart of Darkness
By Joseph Conrad
Cover: El Rio de Luz (The River of Light) (1877) by Frederic Edwin Church (1826-1900) · National Gallery of Art, Washington, via Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
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Heart of Darkness is an 1899 novella by Polish-British novelist Joseph Conrad, in which sailor Charles Marlow tells the story of his assignment as steamer captain for a Belgian company in the African interior. The novel is widely regarded as a critique of European colonialism in Africa, whilst also examining the themes of power dynamics and morality. This book uses the racial and other slurs of its period as written; the Book Guide explains these words where they occur. This book contains scenes of violence as its author wrote them.
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