Heart of Darkness: Popular Penguins
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Heart of Darkness: Popular Penguins
Marlow, a ferry-boat captain on foreign assignment in the Congo, searches for the legendary and feared Mr Kurtz, unprepared for what he will find. On his journey, he encounters the darkness of the wilderness; the darkness of colonization, and ultimately, the darkness within every man.
Marlow, a ferry-boat captain on foreign assignment in the Congo, searches for the legendary and feared Mr. Kurtz, unprepared for what he will find.
Marlow, a ferry-boat captain on foreign assignment in the Congo, searches for the legendary and feared Mr. Kurtz, unprepared for what he will find. On his journey, he encounters the darkness of the wilderness; the darkness of colonisation, and ultimately, the darkness within every man. Heart of Darkness is a powerful indictment of the evils of imperialism.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9780143566441
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 29 August 2011
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Penguin Classics
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 15.0mm
Width: 110.0mm
Height: 179.0mm
Weight: 108g
Pages: 144
About the Author
Joseph Conrad (originally J zef Teodor Konrad Nalecz Korzeniowski) was born in the Ukraine in 1857 and grew up under Tsarist autocracy. His parents, ardent Polish patriots, died when he was a child, following their exile for anti-Russian activities, and he came under the protection of his tradition-conscious uncle, Thaddeus Bobrowski, who watched over him for the next twenty-five years. In 1874 Bobrowski conceded to his nephew's passionate desire to go to sea, and Conrad travelled to Marseilles, where he served in French merchant vessels before joining a British ship in 1878 as an apprentice. In 1886 he obtained British nationality and his Master's certificate in the British Merchant Service. Eight years later he left the sea to devote himself to writing, publishing his first novel, Almayer's Folly, in 1895. The following year he married Jessie George and eventually settled in Kent, where he produced within fifteen years such modern classics as Youth, Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, Typhoon, Nostromo, The Secret Agent and Under Western Eyes. He continued to write until his death in 1924. Today Conrad is generally regarded as one of the greatest writers of fiction in English - his third language. He once described himself as being concerned 'with the ideal value of things, events and people'; in the Preface to The Nigger of the 'Narcissus' he defined his task as 'by the power of the written word ... before all, to make you see'.
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