Heart of Darkness (Conrad)

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Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad, 1899
Penguin Group USA
160 pp.
ISBN-13: 9780140281637

Summary
A masterpiece of twentieth-century writing, Heart of Darkness exposes the tenuous fabric that holds "civilization" together and the brutal horror at the center of European colonialism. Conrad's crowning achievement recounts Marlow's physical and psychological journey deep into the heart of the Belgian Congo in search of the mysterious trader Kurtz. (From the publisher.)

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