Heart of Darkness (Phoenix Classics)

Heart of Darkness (Phoenix Classics)

Por Joseph Conrad, Phoenix Classics

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Sinopsis

Heart of Darkness is a novella written by Polish-born writer Joseph Conrad (born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski). Before its 1902 publication, it appeared as a three-part series (1899) in Blackwood's Magazine. It is widely regarded as a significant work of English literature and part of the Western canon. This highly symbolic story is actually a story within a story, or frame narrative. It follows Marlow as he recounts, from dusk through to late night, his adventure into the Congo to a group of men aboard a ship anchored in the Thames Estuary. The story details an incident when Marlow, an Englishman, took a foreign assignment as a ferry-boat captain, employed by a Belgian trading company. Although the river is never specifically named, readers may assume it is the Congo River, in the Congo Free State, a private colony of 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.

Phoenix Classics

  • Editorial:
  • Phoenix Classics
  • ISBN:
  • 9788826453422
  • Idioma:
  • Inglés
  • Tamaño:
  • Kb
  • Publicado:
  • Enero 1, 2017
  • Protección:
  • DRM