[DOWNLOAD] ~ Heart of Darkness " by Joseph Conrad ~ eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Heart of Darkness
- Author : Joseph Conrad
- Release Date : January 17, 2012
- Genre: Fiction & Literature,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 604 KB
Description
The story tells of Charles Marlow, an Englishman who took a foreign assignment from a Belgian trading company as a ferry-boat captain in Africa. Although Conrad does not give the name of the river, at the time, Congo Free State, the location of the large and important Congo River was a private colony of Belgium's 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.This symbolic story is a story within a story or frame narrative. It follows Marlow as he recounts from dusk through to late night, to a group of men aboard a ship anchored in the Thames Estuary his Congolese adventure.