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Heart of Darkness
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Belgian Congo (Democratic Republic of the Congo)

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Rachel
Mar 02, 2014 rated it it was ok  ·  review of another edition
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Written in 1899, a sailor on the Thames tells his fellow passengers about his trip up river in the Congo as captain of a steam ship. The story is more about Kurtz than the narrator himself, a larger-than-life figure living in a remote jungle camp bringing in more ivory than all the other stations together. When he finally meets Kurtz he is simultaneously intrigued and repulsed, the legend of the man has degenerated into madness and some horrific details emerge. I found this a difficult book to r ...more
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