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Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness is novella written in the late 19th Century centering on the description and narration of an experienced sailor commanding a small steam-powered boat on a journey into the jungle of equatorial Africa in search of an celebrated explorer and ivory trader, but enigmatic and almost god-like, Kurtz. With basic elements of a dystopian work, Heart of Darkness has a basic frame story structure where the Thames River in London forms the frame ...more
Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness is novella written in the late 19th Century centering on the description and narration of an experienced sailor commanding a small steam-powered boat on a journey into the jungle of equatorial Africa in search of an celebrated explorer and ivory trader, but enigmatic and almost god-like, Kurtz. With basic elements of a dystopian work, Heart of Darkness has a basic frame story structure where the Thames River in London forms the frame ...more
